The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-01-04
TelegTaphic Items.

The manufacture of the duplicate French
Atlantic and Great Western cables is stead
lily progressing of the former about 200
miles are already cooled ON board the Great
Eastern, and the electrical condition Of the
cable is all that can be desired
TIE new General Post Office in London
is now approaching completion, and steps
are being energetically taken for the trans
fer Of the head telegraph station there /;
wires are being laid in every direction, and
q large system Of Pneumatic pipes laid
down.
The Indo- European Telegraph Com
Pany have given notice that they are now
again accepting messages for India, China,
and Australia, their special lines via Tehe-
ran, interrupted by the late unusually Sc
we're storms in North Germany, having
been repaired and placed in good working
order again.
THE total number of messages forward
ed from Postal telegraph stations in the
United Kingdom, during the week ended
Nov. 9th, 1872, was l,O75, an increase
on the corresponding week Of last year Of
o., O55.
STATEMENT showing the total number of
messages forw arded from Postal Telegraph
Stations, III the United Kingdom during
the week ended the 10th Of November,
1872, and during the corresponding week
of 1871. Week ended November 10, 1872,
fatal number Of messages BOG, 95l week
ended November 18th, 1871, total number
messages, 249 238 increase in the week Of
1872 ON that Of 1871, 57.7l3.
The report of the directors of the West
India and Panama Telegraph Co. states
that the receipts for the year, almost en-
tIrely derived from the eastern section Of
the line to Demarara, amo nted to f27 $50,
and the expense, including interest, to ZIG,
A. leaviI z bala &c of Is, 40. Legal
proceedings, however, are stih pending be-
tween the company and the contractors for
the cable.
ADvItEs from Jamaica to the 23d No
vember, state that communication between
that place and Asplnwau by cable, has been
interrupted. The break has been located
AT a point 100 miles from Aspinwall and
the place has been carefully marked. An
attempt to raise the cable, in order to make
the necessary repairs, proved unsuccessful,
and the company is now waiting the aIrI-
"a va nv" anu hhHANNOu SioIBAhib go
from England.
A PROPOSITION is moOted to connect Ma
Gao and Hong Kong, China, by telegraph.
ACCORDING to the PdtriG, of Lima, Of
the Pa II October last, Congress has auth
orized the Government to grant subsidy
of 10000 soles for the extension of tele-
graphic comm dnication from Payta to Pan
anna, To form a union with the submarine
cable Just laid between Colon and Jamaica.
THE French are practicing in the hilly
country around Paris, the erection of mi
itary telegraphs In the Buttes Chaumont
Park, recently, where the cliffs ana rocks
are Of the steepest, nifty soldiers Of the en-
gIurer corps laid a perfect labyrinth OF
wires, and sent messages over all Of them
iii half All hour
tbs Assembly Of Victoria has been in
formed by the Chief Secretary that the
Government will submit to Parliament be
fore the end Of the Session proposal Il
subsidlze the overland and cable tele-
graphic communication with India and Eu-
rope, with the object If making general
reduction upon the cost of through mes
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