Reminiscences of the Cape Government Telegraphs

Memoirs of Forty Years- development of the - Electric Telegraph Service in South Africa

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INDEX
1: Chapter I: The advent of the telegraph
20: Chapter II; Ten year's Development: 1888-1898
28: Chapter III; Kimberley during the Gold Fields Rush;
35: Chapter IV; The CTO, Cape Town;
49: Chapter V; Eastern Province Reminiscenses
58: Chapter VI; Construction Perils in the Far North
62: Chapter VII; The telegraphs during the Boer War
66: Chapter VIII; The introduction of Wheatstone and fast repeaters
68: Chapter IX; Recent experience;
75: Chapter X; The orginisation of staff interests;
78: Appendix I; A service "Who's Who.."
95: Appendix II; Sir Somerset French: Post Office Presentation