25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 98, 19 January 1935, Page 6

25 YEARS AGO

Feat of Wireless (From “The Dominion,’’ January 18, 1910.) On her trip from England to Australia in November last the P. and O. mail liner Mantua, which arrived at Adelaide from London on January 8, accomplished the remarkable feat of communicating by wireless telegraphy with the English station at North Foreland from Malta, a distance of over 2000 miles. Sir G. J. Frampton, A.R.A., the sculptor whose statue of Queen Victoria stands in Calcutta, has completed the Seddon memorial panel, which is to be placed in St. Paul’s Cathedral. After being cast in bronze it will be placed in the crypt of the cathedral, adjoining the bust of the late Sir George Grey In his annual feport on the year ended September 30, 1909, the secretary of the Wellington Harbour Board (Mr. H. E. Nicholls), states that the harbour works either completed or continued during the year included the construction and carrying out of the following:—The Petone Wharf, the King's Wharf and stores, the Clyde Quay Wharf and stores, the graving dock, the dredging of the Falcon Shoal, the Waterloo Quay reclamation and extension of sea wall and culverts, and the erection of a large timber 'wool shed adjacent to the King’s Wharf. A contract had been let for a sea wall and earthworks at Miramar, and one for the extension of Miramar Wharf was advertised.