SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH TO AUSTRALIA.
The following report on the pro posed extension of th«i'submarine tele graph to the Australian continent has been furnished to the Postmaster general of Queensland by Mr Crack nel!, the superintendent of electric telegraphs in that colony. The report is dated, Brisbane, May 10 :

I have the honour to inform you that copies of certain correspondence be tween Commander Noel Osborn, now in Adelaide, agent for the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Com pany, London, the superintendent of telegraphs, South Australia, and the chief secretary of South Australia, rela tive to the proposed extension of the electric telegraph to this continent by the British Australian .Telegraph Com pany, have been published; and as the matter is of great importance as re gards the telegraphs of this colony, I do not hesitate in reporting on the subject. On 19th April, I received from your office, copies of letters, dated January last, from Captain Sherard Osborn, R.N., managing director of the Tele graph Construction and Maintenance Company, to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, forwarded under cover of despatches to his Excellency the Go vernor, and from Captain Sherard Osborn to bis Excellency the Gover nor, stating that the British Aus tralian Company bad been formed and contracts entered into for landing a cable at Port Darwin, and constructing a land line thence direct to Burketown, requesting that every countenance and sup port might be given to Commander Noel Osborn, R.N., the agent of the Telegraph Construction and Mainte nance Company, to enable him to carry out the land lines, and urging that the Queensland Government lose no time in completing their portion of the work as far as Burketown.
