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I would draw your attention to the fact that Regulation LXXVI, paragraph 5, referred to by you expressly states that the pro rata rate must be divided among the Administrations employed in the transmission of the telegram, including the Administration which occasioned the diversion. Apparently the underlined portion of the paragraph has been overlooked by you. It is considered that this Administration certainly has the right to divert telegrams, during the first twenty-four hours of any telegraphic interruption, to the Eastern Extension and Southport route, or via Pacific and Southport at pro rata rates as occasion may demand. I have, &p.j D. Robertson, Secretary. The Manager in Australasia, Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company (Limited), Melbourne. [P.CJ. Diversion 07/43.]

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

No. 25. The Secretary, Lodge-Muirhead Syndicate, London, to the Hon. the Postmaster-General, Wellington. The Lodge-Muirhead Wireless and (General Telegraphy Syndicate (Limited), 12 Carteret Street, Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, S.W., Dear Sir,— 30th August, 1906. When we had the honour of showing here something of our system of wireless telegraphy a few months ago, we understood you to say that it would be necessary for us to make a demonstration of it in New Zealand. If you are still of this opinion we shall be glad to be informed what facilities will be afforded us, where it would be agreeable to you that we should place our installation, and whether power would be available for our use. We wish to fall in with your wishes in every way, although it is not usual to require us to go to the expense of exhibiting locally. Our experience is that either in competition with others or more often upon the merits of the system itself we receive orders for the supply of the apparatus requisite for particular installations under prearranged conditions. We may say that our system has attained a high state of efficiency, and the experience we have had of its successful working in several parts of the world and under varying conditions justify our confidence in recommending its adoption by New Zealand. Yours, &c, For the Lodge-Muirhead Wireless and General Telegraphy Syndicate (Limited), J. Stone Blomfield, Secretary. Sir Joseph Ward, K.C.M.G., Premier, Postmaster-General, he, Wellington. [Tel. 06/207(10).]

No. 26. Mr. H. M. HoziEii, London, to the Secretary to His Excellency the Governor, Wellington. Sir,— 26a North Audley Street, London, W., 12th September, 1906. I have the honour to beg that you will be so good as to inform the Governor of New Zealand that my attentioli has been called to an announcement in the Press that tenders will be invited shortly for the establishment of stations equipped with wireless telegraph apparatus on behalf of the Government of New Zealand. If this announcement be correct I should be very much obliged if you would be so good as to move His Lordship to allow me to submit a tender for the establishment of the wireless-telegraph stations in question by the Bonier-Brown system, with which we appear to be getting more satisfactory results every day. I am, &c, H. M. Hozier. The Secretary to the Right Hon. Lord Plunket, K.C.M.G., X.C.V.0., Governor of New Zealand, Wellington. [Tel. 06/207(12).]

No. 27. The Hon. the Postmaster-General, Wellington, to the Hon. the Prime Minister, Commonwealth of Australia, Melbourne. Snt,— General Post Office, Wellington, 15th September, 1906. 1 have the honour to forward herewith copy of conditions which have been drafted here in connection with the proposal to call for tenders for wireless-telegraph installations between

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