MARINE CABLE CONFERENCE.
Melbourne, May 18.
Tho Cable Conference is concluded, aud the result includes Mr Glover's proposed duplication from Singapore to Port Darwin, alao a second cable from Ponung to Singapore. Tho subsidy, to bo £32,000 annually, to bo paid pro ruta by tbo coloniow, according to population. Pross ratoa to be roducod one-fourth, and Government mosnages ono-hftlf. New Zealand and Tasmania, get no udvanfcfigo from tho reduced cable rafiOH. Nothing Imb boon done reduplicating tho land Hue to Darwin. Tasmania and Queensland aro cUbsatibilod wild tho arrangement.
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West Coast Times, Issue 2848, 20 May 1878, Page 2
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89MARINE CABLE CONFERENCE. West Coast Times, Issue 2848, 20 May 1878, Page 2
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