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Otago Witness, Issue 3197, 23 June 1915, Page 49

The cheese sent Homo on the Rotorua hy the Wa ill oil Valley Dairy Company, To Aroha, realised 99s per cwt in the London market. This is probably flic highest price over received by a, Now Zealand company. A big yield of oats is recorded on Mr Wm, Peake’s section at Conical Hills (says the Mataura Ensign). From 9® acres the yield was 158 bags oats and six tons of chaff—approximately a 90-buahcl crop and a tip-top sample. • —Professor Fessenden, of Poston, U.S.A., claims to have invented a contrivance for sending wireless messages from battleships to submarines at « distance of 32 miles under water. By experiments lie hopes to increase the distance very considerably. Ho states that the appliance can also detect the sound of submarine propellers at a distance of two miles, which can be increased to five miles by means of a sound-amplify-ing contrivance. This, he says, would be useful ip detecting enemy submarines.