A TELEGRAPHIC MARVEL.
General Sir Thomas Holdich related an interesting incident at v recent scientific gathering in England. He told how, on the Patagooiian pampas not 'long ago, •in the midst of a wide wilderness of snow, he and his companions, after losing their way in a. blinding snowstorm, struck "the end of the telegraph line which "is now-being pushed across Patagonia, and which will eventually connect the Atlanta?, .with the Pacific. There was nothing but a telegraph end, and the tents of a few telegraph officials; yet here, some 150 miles from their destination, on the Atlantic coast^ it liappened that, after weeks of absence from*any means of communication^ they were suddenly put in possession of its very latest news, and the very first message tha,t passed from the end of that line into the general's hands was the message of peace with the Boers, signed an hour or two previously.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11796, 2 December 1902, Page 7
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152A TELEGRAPHIC MARVEL. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11796, 2 December 1902, Page 7
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