GENERAL SUMMARY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7372, 25 January 1902, Page 3 (Supplement)

GENERAL SUMMARY.

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 26.

A topic of universal interest is the recent achievement of. Signor Marconi in the direction of perfecting his plans of wireless • telegraphy. The latest claim of the inventor is that he has succeeded in sending a message across the Atlantic. He came to America, establishing a station at St. John's, Newfoundland, lie had previously established a plant and an assistant at Poldhu, on the coast of Cornwall, seventeen hundred miles away. Carrying out instructions, the man at Poldhu sent signals at given hours, which Marcoui claims he received unmistakably witk his kite at St. Johu's. A station wifli apparatus costing sixty thousand dollars will be built on the American shore, from which point it is expected that messages may be sen,t to New York on one side and to Poldhu on the other. Marconi has already returned to England, announcing that he will remain there until after the Coronation of King Edward next summer, and that he intends to send news of .that event tc America by his special method. Cable stocks in London have taken a distinct downward road since the announcement of Marconi's success. He is to fit all steamers of the leading trans-Atlantic lines with his apparatus, but will not give further personal attention to that branch of the new invention until after he has spent considerable time perfecting his plans for sending messages across the Atlantic.