Serial
From or to whom.
No.
Date.
Page.
1900.
19.
To Governor Earl Beauchamp (New South Wales) and Lieutenant-Governor Sir J. Madder (Victoria).
February 24
25
(Telegram.)
20
Messrs. Clark, Forde, and Taylor
March 13
25
Anglo-American Telegraph Co.
June 14
26
22
Messrs. Clark, Forde, and Taylor
August 2
27
23
Ditto
August 17
28
24
Ditto
September 4
41
25
25
Ditto
September 19
43
26
To the High Commissioner for Canada and September 29
the Agents General for New South Wales,
45
Victoria, New Zealand, and Queensland.
27
Ditto
October 1,
46
28
To Messrs. Clark, Forde, and Taylor
October 4
:
29
Ditto
October 5
46
46
30
Messrs. Clark, Forde, and Taylor
October 8
47
31
Ditto
October 9
48
32
Pacific Cable Committee to Cólonial Office
October 12
49
33
Colonial Office to the Pacific Cable Com-
mittee.
November 26
51
34
To Messrs. Clark, Forde, and Taylor
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November 28
51
35
To the Telegraph Construction and Main- November 29
tenance Co.
51
...
I.
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
PACIFIC CABLE COMMITTEE,
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS.
December 14, 1899.
Present-Sir F. MowATT (Chairman).
The EARL OF SELBORNE.
Sir G. H. MURRAY.
LORD STRATHCONA,
Sir J. E. SALOMONS.
Sir A. CLARKE.
The Hon. W. P. REEVES.
The Chairman referred to the instrument of appointment of the Committee, and drew attention to the instruction to consider "the steps which should be taken in order to secure that all messages between this country and Australasia should be sent solely through British territory or through cables owned and worked by British companies," and he suggested that these words admitted of the question being considered of having landing station in the Sandwich Islands.
Sir G. H. Murray thought that the words were intended to refer to the case of the Trans-Atlantic and Trans-American lines.
Lord Selborne said that the question of touching at the Sandwich Islands was a matter for discussion.
prac-
The Committee decided that no further evidence was required to prove the } ticability of the project from an engineering point of view.
It was considered that further evidence should be obtained as to the route to be adopted.
It was agreed that Sir W. Preece, Sir W. Wharton, Lord Kelvin, Mr. M. H. Gray, Mr. A. Siemens, and Mr. F. R. Lucas should be asked by letter whether anything had happened since they gave evidence to the Pacific Cable Committee in 1896 to modify the opinions then expressed.
It was agreed that the Foreign Office might be approached with a view to ascertain- ing if a lease of Necker Island could be obtained.
The question of duplication was discussed; Lord Strathcona and Mr. Reeves ex- pressed the opinion that there should be only one cable to begin with.
The next meeting was fixed for 9th January.
January 9, 1900.
PRESENT:
W. H. MERCER, Secretary.
Sir F. MOWATT (Chairman). The EARL OF Selborne.
Sir G. H. MURRAY.
LORD STRATUCONA.
Sir J. E. SALOMONS.
Sir A. CLARKE,
The Hon. W. P. REEVES.
The Chairman explained that he and Lord Selborne, acting under the authority given by the Committee, had been in communication with the Foreign Office with regard to negotiating for a perpetual lease of Necker Island, or for exclunging it for another island in the Pacific, and that the subject was being considered.
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