WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3786, 8 February 1908, Page 3

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

Message across Tasman Sea. . The message which the Premier (Sir Joseph Ward) has successfully despatched to the Hon. Mr Alfred Deakiu (Premier of the Commonwealth) by wireless telegraphy, is unique, because of the fact that it is the first message by wireless telegraphy sent between the two countries. Sir Joseph Ward’s message was as follows : “Hon Mr Deakin, Prime Minister, Commonwealth of Australia, Melbourne. Thanks to the courtesy of his excellency Admiral Fawkes, I am enabled, by the medium of wireless telegraphy, to send you and your fellow-country-men cordial greetings and heartiest good wishes for the progress, prosperity, and development of Australia. May the ties of kinship and the bonds of friendship that have ever existed between us as sister countries continue, and while each strenuously prosecutes such policies as are best calculated to serve the true interests of its people, may each, as proud members of the British Empire, continue to grow in prestige and strength, and ever help to increase the influence and enhance the glory of the Grand old Flag. (Signed) J. G. Ward,” The Premier received word the other day that the message had been successfully despatched. H.M.S. Pioneer, in the Wellington Harbour, had succeeded, at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, in picking up the flagship Powerful, which was the centre or “ repeating ” ship at the time between here and Australia, and which sent the message on to H.M.S. Psyche, lying in Farm Cove, Sydney. No difficulty was experienced in having the message read off.

The Powerful left Wellington at 8.20 a.m. last Friday week. The distance from Wellington to Sydney by, the Ocean route via Cook Strait is 1239 nautical miles.