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Parcel post issues, Todd may implement bi-weekly schedule
Victoria blocks weekly parcel post to SA. Doubtful shipping companies can give 30 day service. Possible subsidy of telegraph services. Todd sick, attends annual diner of Royal Astronomical Society.
Detailed review of Todd's London paper on the Australian telegraph system.
Good source on the history of telegraphy in Australia, including events and personalities, possibility of a Queensland rival line dismissed. Biting review of some of the audience listening to the paper.
Pan colonial negotiations on international telegraph rates &. joint postal service
Significant example of 'federal action'. Mentions a Todd report on working of telegraph system. Some mention of postal volumes.
Todd activities in London
Includes reduction in press messages by telegraph, dining with a company, doing science, conferred with Siemens and visit gutta-percha factory. Health getting better.
Todd working to reduce telegraph rates for press messages
Germans opposing reduction because they "hate the British colonies". Todd paper to Royal Colonial Institute to be a "work of reference", though full of jokes
Reduced cable rates opposed by Indian government,
Telegraph companies compliant, may need a second telegraph cable, Germany involved
India continues to oppose reduction in cable rates
Todd attends International Telegraph Conference at Berlin, August 1885
Cable company sponsors banquet for Todd
In recognition of his services to telegraphy