The Impossible is Done.

During the month the Finnish barque Olive-bank, 156 days out from a Baltic port, arrived in Melbourne, and the human voice was transmitted from England to Australia as easily as one may speak from the kitchen to the dinning-room Anyone who had predicted such a thing at any time in the last century would have been in danger of being locked up. Formal opening of this great service of wireless telephony between Motherland and Commonwealth look the form of a conversation between the two Prime Ministers, who both happen to be Labour Prime Ministers. Their interesting dialogue has been cabled in full, but less attention has been paid to the exchanges between the two politicians who followed them—the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George and the Rt. Hon. W. M. Hughes. It might have been thought that on such an occasion the two Opposition leaders would have followed the two Prime Ministers, but the choice fell on two leaders of third parties. The fact, however, that each of them is an ex-Prime Minister of world-wide fame makes their participation sufficiently notable. Moreover, “wireless” has a past, and both these men know it. “You remember,” said Mr. Hughes to Mr. Lloyd George, “how in 1921 that massed band of experts said this could not be done!” Within one decade the experts are confounded.