The British public has. jost been! Histening to the first broadcasting, from Australia, which is quite good, though of course no one pretends that it is nearly as perfect as it fought to be in time to come. In few days, the Bs to the Empire the first concert from this country. Meantime, Mr. Gerald Marcuse, the amateur experi menter, is being allowed to issue his own broadcasting concert as an experiment and not as a precedent, Incidentally, there is a big war on between the cable companies and the British beam telegraph system, the latter of which now seems to be working satisfactorily. 'The beam charges are lees than' those by the cable companies, the ordinary rate for telegrams 1s, 1d. per! word, and for deferred messages id. a word. The facilities include daily letter telegrams at 5s. 10d for 20 words, the week-end rate being 5s. for 20 words. Telegrams are accepted for places in the Far East at the same rates as by cable routes. Meantime, the Eastern Telegraph Ca. is cutting its rates and it will be interesting to see whether we are to have a cable rate Then, at last, the cotton trade might have some definite idea as to where and how the costs could be cut so) as to put Lancashire on a com. Petitive basis with the rest of the work
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