WIRELESS TELEGRAPHS

Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 25

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHS

MESSAGE FROM WELLINGTON TO

SYDNEY

SYDNEY, February 4.

H.M.S. Powerful has aiTived. A wire* lees message was received last night by the Psyche, in Farm Cove, from the Pioneer, at Wellington, the Powerful being the repeater at sea. The distance which the Powerful was away from Wellington when she* got the message has not been disclosed, but the vessel arrived within 12 or 14 hours after the receipt' of the message at Sydney.

February 5.

The wireless telegraphy experiment witl New Zealand was not entirely successful. H.M.S. Powerful got out of touch with' New Zealand and Australia for six hours, losing the New Zealand side on Sunday night.

SIR J. G. WARD'S MESSAGE TO MR DEAKIN.

WELLINGTON, February 6.

The following 1 ie the text of the Prim« Minister's wireless meseacre to the Hon. Alfred Deakin, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth : — Thanks to the courtesy of Admiral Fawkes, I am enabled, by medium of wireless telegraphy, to send to you and your fellow-countrymen cordial greeting and heartiest good wishes for the progress, prosperity, and development ol Australia. May the ties of kinship and the bonds of friendship that have ever existed between us as 6ister countrief contmu", and while each etrenuouslj prosecutes such a. police- as is best colcu. lated- to serve the truest interests of ltt people, may each, as a proud membei of the British Empire, continue to grow in prestige and strength, and ever help to increase the influence and enhance the glory of the grand old flaf?.