THE DEATH PENALTY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1059, 23 February 1911, Page 5

THE DEATH PENALTY.

LABOUR CABINET'S ATTITUDE. By Telegraph—Press Aseociation-CopyriEiit. Sydney, February 22. • Sir. W. A. Holman, Attorney-General, in explaining the Now South Wales Cabinet's attitude in refusing three petitions for the release of prisoners- who hnd servetl a portion of their sentence after, having had their death sentences commuted, said that if it was the desire , to have the. death penalty inflictcd as rarely as possible, Ministers would be .under 'an obligation to see that the sentences of imprisonment were carried out; otherwise the public would insist on tho executions. OPIUM SMUGGLING. —— —r. : ' ' SEIZURES IN AMERICA. . Cj' Mecraph—Press Association-Copyright. New York, February 21. •' '' Opium -rained at .£20,000 : has been seized in various citics of' the United States since the Customs . cauipaigu started. Detectives 1 report that smuggling is done chiefly by way of the Canadian and Mexican frontiers. WIRELESS ~ ■ fr ■ MR. MARCONI WINS'HIS CASE. By TcNyrraph— Tress Assoclstlon-Copyrlcat London, February 21. , Mr. Justico Parker,' giving judgment in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice, upheld' the Marconi wireless patent of. 1900, as : against the British Radio Telegraph and Telephone Company. ' ' . "■ ■ SYDNEY TALKS .TO SUVA. ,(Hec.' February 22, 9.30 p.m.). ' . *'.• Sydney, February-22. , Tho Randwick wireless station spoko tho steamer Moana at Suva, a distanco. of 2100 wiles. The steamer .received "the messages distinctly. ■ . : . A LONG-DISTANCE MESSAGE. Pari?, February 21. The wireless telegraph station at the Eiffel Tower,- Paris, has communicated with Canada. '

ULIMAROA'S FIXE PERFORMANCE. Ulimaroa, ■ s,s.,\ is still at it with her wireless. Her most recent achievements are stated to be somewhat of a record for, on her last trip from Sydney to Wellington, which ended yesterday, the wireless operator (Mr. ICelly) effected some splendid work. Ever since tho vessel left Sydney on Saturday last he has been in unbroken communication with the . Kw South Wales capital and, during the run across, tho cricket scores' in: the recent test match. South • Africa v. Australia,! wero available for the information'of. passengers on board. They even knew who had won the match probably before the Wellington .public, and,ou Tuesday night,' Mr. ICelly 'heard • the 'station tit as distinctly" as oil. the first, night ou!. Passengers wero also enabled to communicate with Sydney-friends while business and bartering were also effected "along the ether." ,

At times when the Ulimaroa was -ap : Sroaching' the Now Zealand . coasC '.M.S. Powerful (now at Melbourne) was heard conversing with H.M.S. Encounter on anothei;,part of the Australian coast. On Monday night the Wellington Post Office machine was heard ' ticking : sages to "A;A.-U."< (the Ulimaroa code call), but owing to the messages of tho warship and Sydney speaking .with the vessel the sounds, from Wellington were weak. On Tuesday night, .however, much better results were obtained, and conversation was carried on freely.

The record of the trip was established on Monday night when TI.M.S. Challenger, on her way: to South America, was spoken at a distance of 1600 miles. . Interchange of messages was freely made," and <ho latest cricket scores were passed 011 to. those on hoard the warship, these apparently being much appreciated. Mr. Kelly also states that he heard a low-tuned note which seemed to -correspond with the notes sent out by the instruments 011 board the' Maitai <' and Aorangi, and if the former vessel lias heard she must be somewhere in. the vicinity of a day's steam from the island of Rarotonga, on her : way from Sau Francisco to Wellington, a distance - of over 2100 miles. Communication' could just be effected, hut no definite messages were 1 exchanged. If it has happened to be the Aorangi this performance is ■ indeed a record one for the Ulimaroa's instrument. At ono time the R.M.S. Makura was heard as she was approaching the Australian toast from Vancouver. To-night' an attempt will be made to communicate with Sydney and H.M.S. Challenger