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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 11, Issue 828, 19 February 1867, Page 3

Telegraph Fac Similes.— rMr,. Field has brought out to this, coun try a number of very interesting specimens of the system/ .of telegraphing now in operation between, ]'• Paris and Lyons, and Paris and Bordeaux, by which exact copies of the message, are . - produced at either extremity of the lines,', solely by mechanical means. The message . is written on prepared paper covered with a lead-colored surface, which is a non-con- „. ductor of the electric fluid. The writing, or drawing, in the ink furnished * for the, . purpose, changes the points touched by it. '-, to the opposite electrical character. The pendulum is swinging at each end -of the circuit in unison. Its upper end is divided . into points,- say, like a fine tooth comb. The message being passed over these at pne end, sends a current to correspond with the writing or lines, arid produces an exact. r copy of the original ' upon the prepared *, paper held to the vibrating pendulumJn the v distant city. "Thus a fac simile of writing .'___. and signature is. furnished without any skill of the operator. A drawing of the likeness of a thief or absconding tferk is reproduced with minute faithfulness. Patterns of machinery, patterns for bonnets, hieroglyphics, messages in Chinese, or in an unknown tongue, are copied with as little trouble as '" the simplest letters of a familiar alphabet. Some notices of this have been given in . foreign journals, but no mere verbal, description can convey a full idea of the wonderful process. The Hibernian who insisted, some years ago, thafc the telegraph operator should forward his photograph over the wires to his sweetheart was only , a little ahead of his age, since this can now : be done without the slightest trouble, provided the likeness be taken on the proper material. — N.Y. Journal of Commerce. . Curious case under a will.— -In Vice- ; Chancellor Wood's Court, on Saturday, in the case of Armitage v. Armitage, a. curious point was raised. It arose under the, wUI of Joseph Armitage, of Birkley_ Lodge, Huddersfield, who made a bequest in favour of the lawful children of his son James, "provided he should marry an English, lady." James Armitage married Hannah Tahitahi, a native of New Zealand, and. daughter of Samuel Randall and Tahitahi, an aboriginal native of New Zealand. The question was — Whether there was a lawful marriage between Samuel Randall and Tahitahi, and of this there was no evidence except the affidavit of Samuel Randall himself, who described himself as a rangatira of, Waikato, in the province of Auckland, in New Zealand, and deposed that he was sixtyfive years of age, a British subject, born in Massachusetts in 1801, of parents who Were British subjects ; that he came to New Zea-. land in 1828, artd in 1829 intermarried with Tahitahi " according to the laws, oustpms, and usages then in force in- New Zealand ; thafc New Zealand was not then a British colony, and that there was. no Christian clergyman there at the time." Mr. Giffdrd, Q.C., submitted that thi? evidence waia sufficient. Mr. Buchanan for the trostfeea, and Mr. Yool for the person interested if the conditions were not fulfilled,' referred to the decision of the Divorce Cdurt; in which it was held that a marriage, according to the Mormon religion, was hot /vkU-3, and submitted that the Court would hot recognise a marriage according to the' laws, customs, and usages of New Zeftlatid- before . it was a British colony. Mr. , Gifford/ replied. The Vice-Chancellor reserved his judgment. — Scotsman, Dec. 1. ' '. 'v J Obituart. — We regret to notice in^bur obituary column the name of. Miss 'Caroline Ann Whitaker, the daughter of his ; ' Ho.tigr the Superintendent, who expired; Rafter' 'a long and painful illness, onSaturdaymorning last, and was interred yesterday^ in "the burial ground of St/ Stephens* -The funeral,,, which was conducted by MessrsTWirikslafttl y Hall, was a private, one, attendedFohly itiyi •.'"■■ the relations and friends - of the fetnilji^iy--, N. Z. Herald, ¥ob.n.yy:,f hy^'Xy^'-X '■ A Novel . House.-^— The handsome iajSi-^y : loons, with other fittingSj ; whichyforimeyly > graced the deck of that once usefulyvv-essel -yy the ' Gundagai,' are now: fixed^p ; cal habitation ":■ on; the ylef^a^fp€|ji^li i Patea river, having been.puroha^ds J^bthey,; y brothers. Southby, udairymen-s^^ edifice can be Been a^t^wa^^^b ;^?%^; gently-sloping hill. yy- ;i._ c- **• .. -f-fs<,f 'ipiyXX ■' - ' ■;., . --, -.'-i.. ' ■ .-"J X ! '--X\" vf'fmhii ioXX