BY WIRELESS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 16060, 15 October 1912, Page 6

BY WIRELESS.

Wireless telegraphy has become one of the commonplaces of life and the man in the street is not thrilled by the announcement that the high-power station which was opened at Wellington yesterday can " talk" through tho air to Australia and Fiji. The wonder of the feat is realised only dimly even by theme people who can remember the excitement that was caused by the laying of tho first submarino cable between Australia and New Zealand and the exchango of the news of the day without the intervention of a two or three weeks' sea voyage. But we can all understand tho importance to this dominion of tho new link in the chain of Imperial wireless stations. Within a year, perhaps, "Wellington Radio" will be able to accept messages for transmission to tho Mother Country by wireless. The signals will be flung across the severing oceans from point to point, either by way of Australia, India and the Mediterranean-or else over tho Pacific and Canada,, and atno stage will they need to bo rep-sated from foreign soil. In the meantime tho station will ensure that no ship in the Tasman Sea will be without means of communication provided that it carries the equipment which will soon be regarded as absolutely essential. The completion of the dominion's wireless system has been delayed longer than it was expected to be, apparently because of tho dispute that arose between the rival companies, but wo are within measurable distanco now of the timo when New Zealand will bo able in caso of emergency to remain in touch with the island dependencies and the outside world without the assistance of tho submarine cables.