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Show MESSAGE FROM HAWAII. Pacific Cable Has at Last Been Connected Con-nected With Our Possession. Tho patience of tho watchers of tho Postal Telegraph company was rewarded re-warded at 11:01 o'clock on tho night of tho 1st, when the Instrument at the San Francisco end of the Pacific cable Indicated that connections with Honolulu Hono-lulu had at last been made, and that a message was coming through. Tho first words that the ticker denoted de-noted on tho tnpo wcro "You aro reversed," re-versed," meaning that the Honolulu operator wns getting tho San Francisco Fran-cisco signals backwards. Tho local difficulty was quickly adjusted by a readjustment of tho batteries here, and then came tho first formal communication communi-cation from Undo Sam's new possessions posses-sions across tho Pacific cable. |