Some most successful experiments have just been made by Mr. Marconi in telegraphing between France and England without connecting wires. 'The invention by which this wonderful feat has been accomplished has, of course, been known for ames time, and frequently described. It has, however, been urged thut the electric currents. by' which the results are achieved are too liable to interruption by denies this, and this week's experiments go far to prove that he is right, This and inilurgeystems. of telegraphing without wires are now regarded ae capable of enormous extension, Professor Sylvanus Thompson believes, indeed, that messages might, easily he exchanged between the Old World and the New by means of conduction though earth and water, without the need of cables under the Atlantic, Roberts, the Champion, has, as most people expected, made up his lost. ground and gone rapidly during the second week of his Championship match with Dawson, He is now more than two thousand ahead, and his only three thousand more to score—"sainst: Dawson 5,000 odd—in order to retain the Eh pionship, Dawson's cliunees practically over. Still, if Roberts has really done his best from the start, Dawson has certainly mad a good fight for it, and has come nearer to the champi than any other player has done for many years past.
30th March,
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