HEAVY DELAY IN CABLES.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15046, 14 April 1919, Page 3

HEAVY DELAY IN CABLES.

MESSAGES EIGHT DAYS LATE

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Wellington, April 12. Ihe Eastern Telegraphic Company advise:—"At the request of the Pacific Board, we have agreed to carry all outward Government and press traffic to Australasia by our route up to the" 12th mst m order to reduce the delay at Bamfield and obviate the overlapping of full rate traffic when transmission of this class is resumed via Eastern Eastern have eight days' delay, on Far li-ast traffic, but an improvement is expected shortly. All Port Curnow cables are now restored, hni theri is Pressure at Gibraltar owing to Gibral-tar-Malta 1 and Alexandria-Malta 1 and 2 working simplex."