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Expansion of telephone lauded, beyond private merchant based networks to public ones, potentially as a replacement of the telegraph
Need for public telephone network
Telephone demonstration Adl to Kapunda(?)
Telephone demonstration by Todd and Squires from Adelaide to Kapunda(?), attended by many and ending with three cheers by audience
Cape Northumberland lighthouse to be connected by telephone
with MacDonnell Bay for weather and shipping reports
Opening of new (mercantile) Exchange in Pirie Street
With telegraph and telephone facilities
Contractors for Adl telephone exchange. Determination of Qld boundary & Adl longitude
Offer to build Adl exchange, continue definition of SA-Qld boundary, Adl longitude from Greenwich to be done using a point in India
Telephone soon to be a local communication medium
Not used in Adelaide as much as overseas.. Expectation centralised network will soon be established locally. Australia has government dominance so probably won't see overseas version of private companies.