27 DECEMBER 1902, Page 3

It was announced on Monday that an official message from

Lord Minto to the King had been transmitted by Signor Marconi's wireless telegraph. The Canadian station was at Glace Bay, and the British receiving station at Poldhu, in Cornwall. The Times also received a despatch from their correspondent at Glace Bay, in which Signor Marconi sent "a Message of greeting to England and Italy." The achieve.ment is a very remarkable one, and if, as seems most probable, the art of transmission develops in use, there appears to be little reason Why we should not soon be using "Marconigratns" or "Mar- coals" for all the purposes of telegraphy.