The Ottawa Board Of Trade has made a practical departure that must bring the question
	of governmental cable, telegraph & telephone services to the attention of businessmen
	in all parts of the British Empire. A circular letter has been drafted & will be
	forwarded to all Boards Of Trade & Chambers Of Commerce throughout the United Kingdom
	& its colonies, urging the importance of the establishment of indepentdently-owned cables
	connecting the mother country with other parts of the Empire.  The proposal requires
	that not only the connecting transmarine cables shall be under the Government's control,
	but that land telegraphs, in the several British possessions, shall be province-
	owned.  Canada is the only important part of the British Commonwealth in which the
	telegraph service is in private hands, and the circular alludes to a further report that
	the transfer of the Canadian telegraph lines to the Government Post Office Department, and the
	laying of a province owned cable across the Atlantic, are now under consideration by the
	Dominion Government.  The question of establishing the telephone service under
	management will also soon come up for consideration by the Government.