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Press, Volume XL, Issue 5859, 24 June 1884, Page 3

Telephone Communication. — Professor Webster Gillet, of Miohigao, hae been experimenting with a aevrlydeyised telephone of hit own conetruttioa, on tke wires of the Postal Telegraph Company, and woe able to keep up a conversation, in spite of a heavy storm raging and disturbing atmospherical •onditioee, over a length of 509 miles. He ifl sanguine of being able, eventually, to use the oceanic cables for telephonic purposes; but for this purpose what may be called a more powerful telephone, on the came lines as the above, will have to be constructed. It [ is, however, not an over-strained bit of imagination to anticipate that within a comparatively short space of time a person in London may be able to speak with one in Australia.