NEWSPAPER MESSAGES BY WIRELESS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 42, 18 February 1908, Page 5

NEWSPAPER MESSAGES BY WIRELESS.

. |2| ";''% tOOTalN^^nM^il. The New York correspondent* 6£»"'#Fh< Times" (Mr. G. W. Smalley) has sent fc I his paper a column and a half of new: i by the Marconi system of wireless teie graphy. Mr.' Smalley understands that the ser vice is now sufficiently perfected to en able the supply of a similar messag* weekly. m ;.■ S y\ ..•*••■ ■ ["The 'Times* and 'the '■'■'■ Daily Tele graph" have turned every developmem of wireless telegraphy to practical ac count. "The Times" obtained a greal deal of Russo-Japanese war news by its own steamer fitted with a de Forest in stallation, and working in conjunetior with a secret land station supplied by it; correspondent. "Tho ))aily "telegraph' has for two or three years been obtaining weather reports from all the large liners crossing the Atlantic. The cost of Mr. Marconi's trans-Atlantic service is about half of that of the cables, and it is understood that the newspapers are only awaiting assurance of its thorough reliability to give it preference over the older system.]