THE NEW CABLE.
(Br Telbghaph.) Wellington, Feb. 8. The Agent-General has cabled that he has two offers, and expects a third, for making and laying a cable between Australia and NewZealand along the existing route. The lowest tender is under one hundred and fifty thousand pounds. The intelligence has been cabled to the Poßtmaster-General of New South Wales, •with the inquiry if he would be prepared to entertain it. The Cable Company, the AgentGeneral ndds, received for the carriage of messages from New Zealand to Australia, on account of the New Zealand and Australian Cable— irrespective of payments for transmission beyond Australia — during 1885, ten thousand sis hundred pounds, and probably an equal amount for the use of the cable from Anstralin to New Zealand, besides the Bubisidy of Bevea thousand five hundred pounds.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3546, 9 February 1886, Page 2
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134THE NEW CABLE. Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3546, 9 February 1886, Page 2
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