WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.
A UNIQUE FEAT, ~~^2 By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 3. H.M.S. Challenger accomplished an unique wireless telegraphic fear, in maintaining communication with the flagship Powerful, lying in Sydney Harbour, throughout the passage to Wellington every day. European cablegrams were flicked through by the operators on the Powerful to the Challenger, and the news was posted upon the latter vessel for the ship's company to peruse. On Friday evening, at a distance of over eleven hundred miles from Sydney, messages were received without break, and the latest developments in Turkey were read with much interest by all. Even in Wellington the Challenger was able to get in touch with the Powerful 1,239 miles away.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3180, 4 May 1909, Page 5
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115WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3180, 4 May 1909, Page 5
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