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Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 567, 25 February 1878, Page 2

Yesterday af : e-nooii. according to arrangement. Mr. 1 ulxeUi and M r. G. M. ltei.il (oi tin? (Jtajo ]ialhj Time*), anil Mr. Huldswurtli ;iiid Mr. ■'•-lies (nf the Mail), aii' ; several other gentlemen connect' J with the telegraph department. met t.> eoiverse by means of the telephone—the two former in Dunedin, and tlie l itter in ();;inaru. The eiperiii.eui- was sati.-faetor\, although it was tVuiad that if;e conversation from t 'awnru was more cl-rftinot tiuin that, addressed to Oamani from J)uuedin: but this is in all probability owing to some difference in the construction of the insti laments used. J>uii' din and i>uu±ani had not long been conversing when a third oifiee chimed in, and those at Oamaru could distinctly hear a e->nvi-rsari'm going on between the hon. member for Mount Ida (Mr. j.) ■ Lautour) and Mr. (i. M. t-'eed. Not th;it it was any business of ours, as Paul Pry would say, but v.;; couldn't help hearing, and, moreover, ive thought ourselves entitled to listen, seeing iliac Mr. IteLautour had deprived us of our companion. \Ve felt a little jealous at iirst, and had almost concluded to humbug them bv oeca ional interruptions. V.'e ultimately, however, determined to have quite as much or more fun j than would have fallen to our lot had flu- |

member lor M unt Ida not " cut in and ! they were talking s > prettily, and saying 1 such nice tilings (and the member for Mount Ida can talk) that we listened attentively ■ and with pre,-it- interest. Even while th'-v sc i conversing at the sanw moment we. cu'd caio'i) words here and :h re, and could comparatively hear oi ph.jnly as tli'-ugh th-y were talking together neat' u.s. J-Sufc one pecu'iar ty about the telephone is thai: all the sounds it tran.-mits seem to he or tile, same register, ami there appears to be no difference between the high notes of a la y and tlje lqw o;:es of a gentleman. Dunedin asked Oainaru whether Jones had got his fiddle, and said something about somebody going to gaol. to which the reply was, as the next best tivnfjr, the sinking of the " 0;d Hundred.'' Duuediii reciprocated, and after having sung t/ie alio re time-honoured hymns gave Oam.ru ' Koid the Fort, ' and other sacred melodies. U'e are i:<i£ acquainted w-th the exact distance traversed by the telegraph line from Naseby to Oania'ii, but it cannot, we should think, be much, if any rising, under 150 miles, and the sounds must have passed through (the Mnnedin office in order to r.-ac|i us. .A pother peculiarity was that at couM be ife.ir.d li>e ticking of the various telegraph instruments ifi parts remote from <>;i!)iarii, and the operato s oresent could read the signals given. After hiving thoroughly enjoyed the novelty of nearly tw ■ hours' conversation, we thanked j Mr. Lubecki, and wished him good aftpr- j noon. He retu ned the coniphm nt, and j we left the office with a co-'Victi ui that we < had never met with in anything half s • wonderful as'hat "spnee ajn;hiiato>-," the telephone. Since writing the above, we have gleane.d some additi"n;.l particulars in reference to this interesting event. Tlie telegraph line to Naseby goes by way of Pajmeraton froia Dunediu. It appears that 1

Waikouaiti and Naseby were experimenting wiih t !| e telf.ph' ne simultaneously with T"hinedin and Oamaru. When Mr Lnbeeki heard them working, in order that the diseession should not tret slightly mixed, he disconnected" Nas f >by ; but the conversation \va< as distinctly h»ard as before ; and although three per-onswere sometime- speaking at one time, he conL 1 plainly distinguish what each one said.

His Wor-hit' save judgment to-dny in the casp hmuaht by \'r. K Orr against Mr. J. M Mdlan to recover the sum of L 65, the value ot a certain mare wh : ch had been permitted by the defendant, *s bailee, to tret ii'to a b' g. by which means she lost her life, and for special rlamag s. It will be remembered 'hat the nv<re had, in compliance with the defendant's requet, been 'cnt to his n ace tor tile purpo eof being ."tinted. His Wor hit) gave judgment for L4O, with c sts, UO 12-.

Wh.it promises to Up an in'wstinrj debate will fake pla f to-niirht in St. Paul'-' Young VI en's As-oc at ion on the sul-jt-ofc "Whether l hs plensnre* "f hope or memory are the more enjoyable." Wo would remind those interested that n meeting of the North 'H-iSfo Turf C'nb will : >n li.-ld at the Empire Hot 1 this evening for the Tmrpose of openina the general entries and acceptances for the forthcoming races. This evening, Salsburv's Troubadours w'l) Wiwar at the Masonic ]-|all in their exc 1!ct;t en'srtainpient. when we hojio to see a full iiou e. The Troubadours have been highly successful wherever they have :n>pea>ed. For two years and a half they pliyed in America, meeting wbh the greatest -uecess. In Sydney anil Melbourne, t!'ey w re greeted with enthusiastic audiences, Hi fir entertainment miming for ten weeks :t the Ope:a Holism in Mi'lboni" e. Their success, so far in this Colony has been '■'("ally grp.it. In Ibmedin. tjicy l>nve dra\}'(i }»ifi«es flic receipts for :id■nission in one we-'k being ovei- 1.4C0. To ~Wr. Ha'l is due the credit of bringing the Troubadours here, and tve trust tliat his enterprise will meet with that amount of encouragement which it so richly deserves. !'he ••nmpanv w r ill only appear in Oamaru for two n ghts. and will afterwards appear at Tiiparn, Christ church, and the Nor 1 . hern towns, proceeding to San Francisco by the April mail steamer.