Amusing Wireless Message

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 September 1911, Page 4

Amusing Wireless Message

Mr Robert Itdwards, purser on tlio White St;ir linor Baltic, find his wife who fame over on th'o Minnewaska, of tho Atlantic 'IYa.nsport Company, to join him in New* York, wore close together at sea. So Pnrsei' Edwards sent to Mrs Edwards on the otlier ship, this message h' wi re!o>s: "Third Epistle of John, Verses 13 and 1-i." . The;e two versos read; " have ninny tilings to 1 will not- with pen and ink write unto tlioo. '"But I trust I .shall shortly see tii-e and we snail speak together fnc-' i.» face. Pencc be to thee." Bin in transmission the message got twisted slightlv, and when Mrs Edwpr-s found a Bible and looked up the reference she encountered' another vers. - *, reading as follows: "T'/ere is n serpent in my house." Min l'":lv.:irds thought it over and d "'.idrl that the purser had been drinkm'/:. S:>. in order to show sire understood, she wired hack to Bnm til i . ••Fii;t Timothy, fifth chapter, twenty-luird verse," tfhicli wads: "Drink no longer water, hut use a littk wine for thy stomach's sake and llii'io infirmities." The muddle was straightened out when the Mimiewa.ska was docked.