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Show Australian officials, The statis-1 .ties on which the Australian postmastergeneral founded his telegraph rates showed conclusively conclus-ively two things, that the faci-Hcies faci-Hcies already supplied in Australia Austra-lia to the public for the use both I of telegraph and telephone far j exceeded those supplied, either I by governments or by private 'enterprise, in any country of Europe or America in proportion to the number of the population; and further, that the charees for these services were much lower j in Australia than in any of those 1 countries. They showed that I both in post-offices and telegraph stations the people of the young I commonwealth were far better ! provided for than either in Eng-' Eng-' land or America, and, apparently apparent-ly as a consequence, that they 1 made more use or trie conveniences, conveni-ences, enabling all telegraph j rates to be reduced to a point far j below those charged elsewhere without any loss to the revenue. The new commonwealth rates provided for in the act illustrate the truth of his boast. For city messages, which includes a suburban sub-urban area of a radius of 10 miles J beyond the city limits, the rate is 12 cents for messages of ten words and the address; for messages mes-sages of the sa me length to any point within the same state, and the states . are generally very much larger than any American State, the charge is 18 cents, while for similar messages to any station within the commonwealth, common-wealth, and from Rockhamp-ton, Rockhamp-ton, in Queensland, to Perth, in r7est Australia, the distance of wire is more than 4,500 miles, the uniform charge is 24 cents. It is calculated, on the basis of past experience, that these rates will return a revenue sufficient to pay operating expenses of every, kind, including the cost of maintenance, main-tenance, and in addition interest on the original ezpensa of eoa-struction, eoa-struction, amounting to fully' $18,000,000, This apparent ano-maly, ano-maly, when compared with American experience, is at least in part explained by the fact that Australians send more than twice as many messages over the lines at the lower rates as Americans do at the present charges, : and that where every post-office is also a telegraph station, and every country postmaster a telegraph tele-graph opeiator, the cost is greatly reduced. In Australia tLe telegraph lines are owned by the government, govern-ment, and the system would seem to be an unqualified success, according ac-cording to a writer in the March number of the Rev Lew of Reviews. Re-views. A number of figures are taken from current reports of |