The Archive · 1901

The Direct Cape Cable

Information was recently to hand in Melbourne auvisirg that the new. Cape cable was completed on the 19th of October, when the telegraph ship Scotia landed the eastern end at Fremantle. The cable is to be officially opened for public business on the 19th of November. Points touched fat are Mauritius, Rodriguez, thence to the Cocos Islands, and Fremantle, the final span being from the latter port to Fremantle, a distance of 1,500 miles. The total length of the cable is slightly over

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