The Daily bulletin., 1890-11-21
GABLE PROSPECTS.
British Telegraph MeU Awaling to
the Necessity of n Pacific Cable.

British Telegraph Men AwhktnE TO
the Necessity of Pacific Gable.
An Ottawa despatch of Oct. 23
says that Sir John Pender, Presl-
dent of the Eastern Telegraph Com
pany, has informed Mr.. Sandford
Fleming that he will visit Hong
Kong next year by way of Canada,
part Of his object being to discuss
"the best means of establishing
closer telegraphic communication
between Canada and the Australian
colonies when the time is ripe for
carrying out the work" The
friends of the Eastern Telegraph
Company have at last to recognize
the absolute necessity for an alter
native cable to Australia by way of
Canada and the Pacific. In the
same letter the chairman of the
Eastern Company says:
eff the various governments in
terested are determined to have a
line across the Pacific and are pre-
pared TO incur the requisite expen-
ditures for the purpose, | am quite
ready, as l have always told you, to
cooperate in carrying out the work
on fair and reasonable terms. In
this way the object might be obtain
ed more easily and economically
than if the third parties were en-
ployed.
Mr.. Fleming says, in his reply,
that the means taken to establish
the new telegraphic communication
is entirely secondary, povided that
the new line be secured.
In connection with the foregoing
the following interview appears ir
the Montreal Witness:
Mr.. G. r. Hosmer, manager Of
the Canadian Pacific Telegraph,
gentleman generally conceded to bt
one of the foremost telegraph mer
on the continent, was asked by 6
Witness reporter to-day for some in
formation regarding the proposed
cable between the two colonies, Ca
NADIA and Australia, referred to il
our Ielegraphic dispatches last eve
mig.
Mr.. Hosmer said that fresh inter
est in the Pacific cable from Van
couver to Australia had been awak
ened recently owing to the frequen
interruptions TO the present route
which had cut Australia off entirel,
for weeks at stretch from the out
side world. 1t was now conceded
: by all telegraph men tina. there wer
no insuperable difficulties in the wa,
| of laying cable between British
, Columbia and the east.
"There are two differen
schemes" said Mr.. Hosmer, eth
one advocated by DR.. Sandforc
Fleming, contemplating cable from
Vancouver to the Sandwich Island
direct, thence to New Zealand an,
Australia. The second scheme is t
! lay cable from Vancouver to tn
Aleutian Islands, thence to- Japa
' and China. The latter scheme woul
be completed by the laying OF lii
: tie over four thousand miles of ca
? bic. The Australian scheme woul
2 take little over seven thousan
t miles. This would, of course, reac
t Australia, while the other rou1
would only reach Japan"
j "What about Sir John Pender
: connection with the matter?'
e "Sir John Pender is the chairma
n of all the existing cable compani'
/ leading TO the East, and if the cab
IS were laid by him it would be with
IS view of protecting the present mo
$ opoly which he enjoys in that cou
try"
"What are the present cable rat
e. to China and Japan?'
tThe rate from America to Chi
!. and Japan is $2.6l per word, v
the Eastern Telegraph Compan
of and $l.96 by the Siberian route, al
IL to China S1.74. The lowest rate
t. Australia is $2.33 per word. L
I'd shorter distance covered by the nj
| cable would, Of course, reduce I'll
ne by one-half. "
e. "Would this new scheme affe
IN your company in any way?"
ne "Of course our company wou
a be very glad TO see the cable lai
ed as it would divert large propc
ge ton of the Australian, China a
on Japan business to the United Stat
We and Great Britain this way, tn
n benetting our land lines betwe
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