FIRST NEWSPAPER PRINTED AT SEA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12225, 21 March 1903, Page 1 (Supplement)

FIRST NEWSPAPER PRINTED AT SEA.

vIAECONI KEEPS THE PASSENGERS OF A LINER PQSTED. New Yoke, February IO.Tr-The Journal has the following from London: Passengers on the Atlantic transport steamship Minneapolis, which reached London to-day, enjoyed the distinction of being the first trans-Atlantic travellers to keep in touch with the world throughout the voyage. ; They were the first contributors to and readers of the Intercontinental Wireless : Daily, printed on the Minneapolis, which for five days kept in touch with the Cap? od Station. after that her wireless plant began to respond to the messages from, Cornwall..! "'" ' s "'.'.' ' ■" \ The passengers of the Minneapolis represented many nations, and the countries of the world had to be scoured .for, the news they wanted. This news, ; filtered by way of London and New York, comprised bulletins from every corner of the earth. • _ Varying phases of the' Venezuelan question, the domestic; troubles of European - potentates, King Edward's illness, the con-, test for the Fair millions, - and the,; hurricane in the Society Islands were picked up and duly chronicled. The newspapers offered for sale by the English pilot were for the first time'declined with disdain.,