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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 8, 28 June 1887, Page 4

Edison, though ill for a long time is not wiped out yet I A report from Fort Maine, Fla., where Mr Edison is sojourning, says that he is working on his sea telephone. Already he can transmit sound between two vessels from three or four miles distance from each other, and is confident that he will be able to increase the distance between his stations as the apparatus becomes more perfect. Up to the present time Mr Edison has not succeeded in transmitting articulate speech through his sea telephone, nor is this essential to the success of the system. By means of submarine explosions he is enabled to form a series of short and long sounds in sequence, and by these, as in the Morse eystem of telegraphy, words and sentences can readily be transmitted. A correspondent writes to the Hawera Star : —The Maoris evidently intend to have a high time at Parihaka, but it appears that the whole of the provisions recently sent there were not intended for a feast alone. According to the Maoris, the late frosts last year killed the potatoes out right up Parihaka way. The following is a list of the provisions already conveyed to Parihaka, as S’ven by a Maori : 400 bags potatoes, ?00 ts of kumara, 50 kits of taro, 40 pigs and 25 bullocks. Is it to be wondered at that Te Whiti should say, “Ka nai te Waimate plainq *” The smallest English bishopric is that of Sodor and Man, which embraces a territory of 180,000 acres and a population of about 64,000. The income of the bishopric is 2,000 a year; tte number of hs benefices 31. Says the Napier News : "General” Whitmore telegraphed up North the other day to a Major in a certain district as follows "Forward all the volunteer subscriptions towards the Imperial Institute at once.” The reply was to the following effect : •‘Have’nt subscribed a red cent. Not a stiver. Many regrets. Better luck next time.” _ The Marquis of Bute, with his characteristic generosity has given £lOOO for the establishment cf a National institute for Wales, at Cardiff, for the advancement of literature, art, and science, as a Jubilee memorial. The scheme will cost in its entirety £17,000. Billheads, ball programmes, and all odd jobs done speedily and well at the Standabd office. Fair play is bonny play—give us a rial.