§ SIR JOHN COLOMB (Great Yarmouth)To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the interruptions which have taken place in through telegraphic communication, via Canada, between the United Kingdom and Australia have been confined to that section of the line located in the island of Vancouver; and whether this section of the line was specially laid for the purposes of the Pacific cable.
1430 (Answered by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain.) The interruptions which have taken place in through telegraphic communication, via Canada, between the United Kingdom and Australia have been confined to the Vancouver Island land lines, the western section of which was specially laid by the Canadian Pacific Railway for the purposes of the Pacific Cable.