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CONTENTS.

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Pago

Pago

INSTRUMENTS OF APPOINTtment

4

4. Form of Contract; put in by Mr.

Lucas

·

231

REPORT

5

I-MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS:-

5 June 1896

15

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5. Memorandum on speed of working on long submarine cables; put in by Mr. Lucas

23+

8 July

16

39

12 November 1896

17

6. Memorandum by Dr. Muirhead on

bis evidence-

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234

16

34

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7. Table of working speed of cables in

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50

31

33

18

61

words per minute; put in by Mr. Preece

235

71

19

23

73

"1

71

24

83

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8. Table of details of submarine cable;

put in by Mr. Preece

236

25

99

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26

115

13

19

30

137

11

11

1 December 1896 -

153

10.

2

168

11.

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19

3

187

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H

7

199

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9. Table showing the growth of tele-

graphic business in New Zealand;

put in by Mr. Reeves Statement put in by Mr. Mercer Statement showing the existing Traffic between Europe (and America) and Australasia during

the year ended 31st March 1896; put in by Mr. Finch

236

236

LIST OF WITNESSES :—

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Mr. Sandford Fleming

17

"

M. H. Gray

34

Alexander Siemens

41

11

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Theophilus Smith -

12. Telegrams between Sir D. Smith and Sir W. Van Horne; put in by Sir D. Smith.

240

57

13. Extract of a letter from Sir W. Van

F. R. Luona

61

Horne to Sir Donald Smith;

Dr. Alexander Muirhead

71

put in by Sir D. Smith

241

Mr. H. A. Taylor-

75

Capt. W. Goodsall

14. Extract from Report of Proceedings

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of the Inter-Colonial Conference

Mr. W. H. Preece

87

Rear-Admiral Wharton

99

Mr. Frederick Ward

on Postal and Telegraph Matters held at Sydney, January 1896

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242

105

The Marquess of Tweeddale

Mr. H. A. C. Saunders

III-CORRESPONDENCE —

115

F. E. Hesse

J. C. Lamb

137, 187

1. Telegraph Construction and Main- tenance Company, July 3, 1896-

259.

Buxton Forman

156

2. Sir H. C. Mance, July 4, 1896 ·

262

J. H. Carson -

157

3. F. E. Hesse, Esq. (Eastern Ex-

"1

M

R. K. Gray

163

T. Playford

168

tension Telegraph Company), November 27, 1896

262

W. P. Reeves

176

4. Anglo-American Telegraph Com-

"3

W. H. Mercer

181

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pany

B. T. Finch

183

(J. H. Carson, Esq.), December 2, 1896

264

21

N. Cork

196

C. U. Kingston

199

Colonel Hozier

200

5. H. A. C. Saunders, Esq. (Eastern Extension Telegraph Company), December 8, 1896

265

Mr. E. T. Dozat

202

6. Commercial Cable Company (F.

Ward, Esq.), December 4, 1896.

II-PAPERS, &C. PUT IN BY WITNESSES :-

1. Statement by Mr. Sandford Fleming

205

7. Agent General for S. Australia,

December 15, 1896

2. Appendix 1 to Mr. Siemens's evidence

297

3.

2.

227

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8. To Lord Kelvin, December 16,

1896

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266

267

Chart of the 1894 Atlantic Cable; put

9. Lord Kelvin, December 18, 1896.

267

in by Mr. Siemens

228

A 2

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

PERC.O. 885

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO

Instrument of Appointment of the Committee.