56 TlMEHRI. 
summary of the world's news, why the Press Association 
of London would so improve upon our present American 
supply as to gladden the heart of every merchant, and 
give our local Editors room for enterprise, of which they are 
now unable to afford us illustrations. But as matters are, 
the large number of times a message has to be repeated 
precludes the possible hope of lengthy messages ever 
being sent from England to the West Indies. Passing 
over so many separate Company's lines, necessitates, as 
a matter of course, delay and a total heavy charge ; though 
no single one out of the ten or eleven Companies, can 
claim a very large sum, even out of the fourteen shillings 
per word, now demanded. 
So far as can be gathered by the writer from the 
public sources open to him— and one of the latest is to 
be found in the November number of the Leisure Hour 
for last year — a message addressed to London is 
sent by Demerara to Trinidad (i) ; thence to Santa Cruz 
(2), [provided the through cable between those two points 
be in good working order, otherwise it must percolate 
" up'the Islands" to the station named], and in succession 
to Santiago de Cuba (3), Havannah (4), Key .West (5), 
Punta Rassa (6), Lake City (7), and New York (8). 
There is then the link betwixt that city and Newfound- 
land (9) to be wired over, before it is ready to be cabled 
across the Atlantic to Valentia in Ireland (10). Then by 
one last operation through the Irish land lines, the cable 
across the Irish sea, and the land lines from South Wales 
to London— all leased from the British Postal Telegraph 
system, — the message is finally received in London (11). 
After such a journey, and passing as it must through so 
many different hands, the feeling excited is rather one 
