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Otago Witness, Issue 3596, 13 February 1923, Page 40

With a wireless apparatus of only three valves, a man in Holyhead, North Wales, heard a concert and sermon broadcasted from America, 3000 miles away. This is the first instance of audible and readable speech across the Atlantic with the minimum of apparatus consisting of three valves. When the fourth valve was added, the signals were considerably stronger, and audible at times several feet from the ’phones. The wife of the banker historian, George Grote, must have been an extraordinary woman. She rode without a saddle; she was not afraicl to put off in a boat without a man ; and she vras plucky enough to marry her lover without permission, and return home without saying a word about it. Sydney Smith describes this lady and her lord in his happy fashion, “I do like them both so much, for he is ladylike and she is a perfect gentleman.” Fifteen women collectors in connection with “Poppy Day” appeared on remand at Glasgow, on the following morning, when 12 pleaded guilty to theft, one to receiving stolen money, and two not guilty. Three were sentenced to one month s imprisonment, eight were fined £lO or 30 days, two were admonished, and two cases adjourned. One defendant fainted! in dock. The Tory “ Beaver ” of Herefordshire (England), Mr Frederick Wilkins, has decided not to part with his long whiskers and hair. Having made a wager 16 years ago that he would neither shave nor cut his hair until a Conservative Government was returned to power, and, having kept his vow, he is now free to call to his aid scissors and razor. His locks, which hang down his back almost as far as his beard reaches down his waistcoat, are dressed at the top of his head by the aid of a comb and hairpins for walking out purposes. It is only on special occasions that he is to be seen with his hair hanging free. “It might come off,” is all that can be got out of this determined old Conservative, who little imagined when he made his vow’ that he would have to wait 16 years before it was fulfilled. “While passing up the Tyne,” remarked Captain 11. H. Sergeant in his report to the Auckland Harbour Board at its last meeting, “1 was much interested in seeing H.M.S. Calliope (as she was then known), which gained such fame by steaming out of Apia Harbour, Samoa, many years ago during a severe hurricane, when several warships of other nationalities were wrecked. It is generally understood that this feat to a large extent was due to the fact that she was using Westport coal at the time. She is now moored well up the Tyne, and appears to be in an excellent state of preservation.”