Where Honor's Due

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 19, 19 July 1906, Page 9

Where Honor's Due

A cable message, from Melbourne in last Saturday's daily papers reads as follows :— ,r^L? he v fir u st AusH alian experiment in wireless telegraphy has been made between Queenscliff and De\nn?£Hl' A v message, was successfully exnA §£ d S?^66^ Ihe Governor-General (Lord Northcote) and the State Governor and Governor of Tasmania The Marconi system ivas used. I.v'1 .v'. v ' L The first sentence in this message is what is now known in the English political world as < a terminological inexactitude.' As a matter of fact this was not • the first Australian experiment in wireless telegraphy.' Some years ago wireless messages were sent and received by the noted Caiholic" scientist, Father Slattery, CM., at St. Stanislaus' College, Bathurst, New South' Wales. Father Slattery had, and still has, a wireless telegraphic installation in the College, and with its aid he and his natural science classes sent numerous messages over considerable distances. In (he physicallaboratories of the same College the X-rays were also, we think, first used in Australia for medical and surgical work. Alexander would not steal a victory from one of his generals. And in the matter here under consideration, let us not strip the mantle of honor from the shoulders that rightly Lear it.