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PACIFIC CABLE CONFERENCE.

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FIRST DAY.

Thursday, June 22nd, 1905, at 11.30 a.m.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P., the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in the Chair.

PRESENT:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD JERSEY, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.

THE HONOURABLE SIR WILLIAM MULOCK, K.C.M.G., M.A., K.C.

SIR SANDFORD FLEMING, K.C.M.G.

(Members of the Conference.)

Mr. GEORGE W. JOHNSON, the Secretary to the Conference.

ALSO PRESENT:

Sir SPENCER Walpole, K.C.B., Chairman of the Pacific Cable Board.

The Right Honourable LORD STRATHCONA AND MOUNT ROYAL, G.C.M.G., the High

Commissioner for Canada.

The Honourable W. PEMBER REEVES, the High Commissioner for New Zealand. Mr. J. W. CAWSTON, His Majesty's Treasury.

Mr. W. H. MERCER, C.M.G., Crown Agent for the Colonies.

(Members of the Pacific Cable Board.)

The CHAIRMAN: Gentlemen, I hope you will allow me to express the cordial wel come which we extend to you on the present occasion, especially to those who have come a long distance to attend this Conference. I will only say just two or three words in recommending the discussion to you. I think we ought to remember that this is almost, if not quite, the first commercial enterprise of a large character which has ever been undertaken in partnership by the self-governing States of the Empire,

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