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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 58, 2 December 1907, Page 4

'■ A sensation was caused in Collilis Street, 'Melbourne, the other' day .by' the unusual spectacle of a young female walking quietly along the foot])ath smoking a. cigar. Every head was turned, and passengers stopped to stare at her, but the smoker did not appear to be at all concerned about the interest that was taken in her, and strolled 011 with the utmost nonchalance.

It is part of the .new Australian mail contract that should wireless telegraphic stations be established 011 tho Australian coast'the vessels of the. Orient Company must be fitted up so as to receive and despatch messages. Tho Federal Government, it is said, have already practically decided to erect a station near Fremantie. Stations undor control of the Marconi Company which care' for messages being transmitted from London to New York cost £110,000, and, it is said, do an equal amount of work to that now performed by a cable costing £1,000,000. Formerly ordinary cable messages between 1 these two cost £1 per word, whereas now the. rate, is Is. . Mr. states that, his company will shortly take messages lit the'rate of s'd. per word for ordinary and 2Jd. for the Press.