Beyond The Dominion
WIRELESS TO NEW ZEALAND. Sydney. Last Friday night the first wireless messages from New Zealand was received by a young experimentalist living at Arncliffe, who was using a fifty feet aerial receiver and a detector of his own invention. He picked up the Powerful signals plainly all the way across to Auckland. When the flagship rounded the North Cape his signals were fainter, probably due to the land coming between. He expects to hold her all through the cruise. On February 15th he picked up H.M.S. Encounter with Lord Kitchener aboard when about a thouasnd miles distant. The experimenter also thought he could detect H.M.S. Powerful speaking to H.M.S. Challenger on Friday last, and that he could hear the latter replying, although he could not make out the message. He got several long messages from H.M.S. Powerful.
CANADA TO AUSTRALIA. London. Reuter's Montreal correspondent reports that the Canadian Pacific railway headquarters state that though the New Zealand Steamship Company has been awarded the subsidy for the steamship service, Montreal to Australia the service is really to be a Canadian Pacific railway service. Three ships will be put on the route. The first sails on May 15th.
SERVICE AND SUFFRAGE. London.
At a meeting of London shopkeepers, under the auspices of the National Service League, Mr. Robert McNab, formerly Minister for Agriculture in New Zealand, stated that Australia and New Zealand were the only portions of the Empire which made military service compulsory. He attributed the success of the movement there to universal suffrage.
ADMIRALS ALL. London. The promotion of Admiral Sir Arthur Dalrymple Fanshawe to the active list of Admirals of the Fleet, vice the Right Hon. Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, is announced. ViceAdmiral Sir Edmund Samuel Poe becomes Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Squardon and Admiral Sir Asheton Gore Howe, who now holds that post, becomes Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth.
MONO-RAIL TRIAL RUN. London. Mr. Louis Brennan's monorail car carried 60 passengers at Gillingham at a speed of 22 miles an hour, negotiating sharp curves with great steadiness. Mr. Kirkpatrick, Agent-General for South Australia, and Mr. Hall-Jones, Agent-General for New Zealand, were present.
Mr. Brennan expects that the first regular service for passengers will be in operation in eighteen months.
The owners of the German rights hope to establish a service at a speed of 125 miles an hour between the capital and the big provincial towns. OIL KINGS AT WAR. New York. A fierce rate-cutting war is proceeding between the Weetman-Pearson syndicate and the Standard Oil Company. The latter is attempting to squeeze the Pearson syndicate from the Mexican oilfields. Between £750,000 and a million sterling has already been lost owing to prices being below the cost of production.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 238, 2 March 1910, Page 3
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