Chames Advertiser.
Vol. XXVII. No 8,193,

Thames, N.Z, Monday, August 5, 1895.
ESTABLISHED jSIPRIXi 11- 1868' Circulating Daily in the Thames Valley, Te Aroha, Ohinemuri, Owharoa, Waitekauri, Puriri, Hikutaia, Hastings, Auckland, and Surrounding Districts.
Published Daily; One Penny.
LIFE OF OCEAN CABLES.
Noteworthy advances are being made in the art of submarine cabling, and some of the new cables are beau, tif ul pr aductions of modern ingenuity; but it is encouraging for those who have invested their money in ocean telegraphy to know that a very large proportibi of the oldest cable still re main in active service. The primeval cables break once in a while, a repairing fleet is necessary, and an occasional new link needs in sertion, but by dint of watching and patching the old cable enables the re servo fund laid aside for their renewal to take on such gratifying proportions that the stockholders could almost draw incomes from them alone. : The latest Atlantic cables are distinctive chiefly for their greater weight of copper and dielectric and for the greater speed possible in transmission, One of them, with 500 pounds of copper per mile, gives a speed of forty words per minute easily, while the other, with 600 pounds, is said to be capable of fifty words.
