EUROPEAN TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION.
The Melbourne Telegraph points out how this has been nearly accomplished, and declares that the daiay and difficulty in setting the finishing of the work is unintelligible. Our contemporary points out that the Anglo-Indian lines are in operation as far south as Rangoon on one side, and Ceylon the other. The Dutch authorities are completing the connecting lines between Singapore and the southern point of Java. Our own wires have extended to the northen ports of the continent, and Queensland is preparing to carry them from Rockhampton around the shores of the Carpentarian Gulf. All that is wanted, therefore, is to connect Singapore with Rangoon—a distance of 1100 miles—aud Java with the North Australian shore—a space of 1200 or 1600 miles, according to the particular terminus selected. At present our contemporary declares our 3 are the only civilised countries of any importance which remain outside the telegraphic circle.
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Colonist, Volume XII, Issue 1243, 24 August 1869, Page 4
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151EUROPEAN TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION. Colonist, Volume XII, Issue 1243, 24 August 1869, Page 4
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