LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
The confer ance of Chambers 1 if Commerce a.t. •Palmersi^ni North resolvedi that owing to the serious loss of Me a.t railway crossings the tiu.t has arrived when the Govcirnment, should appoint crossing keepers *o gtuai'd the railway line in busy +hovioughfares. A copy of the Western Dail-"- M.tcury, Plymouth, England, has reached the office of the Union Company. It is dated about the time of liie wreak of the Penguin, and contains a harrowing account of tho disaster, mlentioning that "70 lives were lost," amd that "all the boats were' rotten!" It would be difficult to eclipse this! \ Two wonderful inventions connected with wireless telegraphy have been simultaneously announced. A ftorwegiani named Heyland has patented a contrivance recording ethergraoi-s in print, and two Frenchmen, Gheiin and Chantelot, one for tmnsmitting the handwriting of the sender.
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Thames Star, Volume XLV, Issue 10421, 14 May 1909, Page 4
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