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.
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.
Includes reduction in press messages by telegraph, dining with a company, doing science, conferred with Siemens and visit gutta-percha factory. Health getting better.
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