The vastness of Australia with its unlimited scope for settlement compels a keener demand for a rapid development of wireless telegraphy and wireless telephony than is demanded nearer the world's centres of scientific progress. And, curious: ly enough, the same immensity may give to isolated settlers " outback" who have not yet got the attractive cities' advantages of land lines, the daily companionship of messages on the highways of other.
The Federal Government recognizes the special needs of pioneer settlements, and has already done a great deal to keep them in line with coastal progress, but the necess for numerous land lines at hea cost fay construction and maintenance is so great that purposeful xttention is being given to the question of speaking across Australia instead of along wires.
It is proposed to erect wireless stations in northwest Queensland. and in the Northern Territory, and thus bring almost half a continent within easy range of the big centres of population in Australia.
LoxedDastance Starion at PERTH.
Then at Perth, Western Australia, a local firm of electrical en-gieers recently erected to the order ai the Perth Observatory, a long-distance wireless receiving apparatus with a range of 12,500 miles. The apparatus is so constructed that advices may be received without interference from
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