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WIRELESS MARVELS. (Received this day at lu.i.j a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. j Referring to Marconi’s article in II Giorno, Mr Fisk, Managing Director of Wireless Limited, said in the near future people outback, by means of a ! small apparatus in their homes will receive the news of the world daily. ; Mr Fisk added that the predictions by Marconi arc governed largely by latest type instruments called “The Valve,” j by means of which feeble currents are I magnified thousands of times, and the increased current used in sending and receiving.
THE ENGINEERS’ STRIKE. SYDNEY, This Day. Tile Commonwealth Statistician announces that ill 1919 the cost, of living in the Commonwealth increased 10.9 per cent compared with 1918.
RISE IN FARES AND FREIGHTS. SYDNEY, This Day.
The Shipping Combine has increased the fares to the United Kingdom twenty per cent-. It is understood freights will be increased fifteen per cent.
INFLUENZA AGAIN. BRISBANE, 'Tiffs Day. Several cases of influenza are reported at Cairns, hut the authorities state there is no cause for alarm. There have now been thirty one deaths at Thursday Island.
BUSH FIRES. (Received This Day at 10.36. a.m. 4 •ADELAIDE, This Day.
Bush fires caused many thousand pounds worth of damage at Mount Lofty Ranges.
EFFECT OF STRIKING. MELBOURNE, 'This Day. Twelve thousand are rendered idle in the State as a result of the shipping strike.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1920, Page 3
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