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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIII, Issue 15000, 23 February 1899, Page 3

The Wdu'ngton Harbour Board has under consideration a proposal to advance £20,000 to the- Masterton Borough Council. If the Board's terms are agreed to the loan will be sanctioned.

"In all probability," writes the South Australian Register, "it will not be long before wireless telegraphy will be an accomplished fact in Australia. The West Australian Government, for instance, pro-, poses to institute telegraphic communication between Rottnest Island and Fremantle, a, distance of 14 miles, by the wireless system. It cannot be. that the authorities here have overlooked the possibilities of this wonderful discovery of science. Could not the system, for instance, be tried between some of the outcapes and the island lighthouses? Those who have studied the question are of opinion that Cape Willoughby, on Kangiroo Island, and Cape Jervis, on the mainland, would affort excellent scope for , a series of experiments. Then there is Althorpe Island, which is badly in need of some better method of keeping in touch with the mainland, owing to it beine extremely difficult (,o prevent an ordinary sul marine cable from wearing against the point of contact."