NEW TELEPHONE MARVEL

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 12580, 29 September 1908, Page 7

NEW TELEPHONE MARVEL

Simultaneous Speaking and Writing

A German inventor, Hcrr Gustav Grzanna, is exhibiting a novel apparatus for the transmission ot electrical energy. Herr Grzanna can transmit han<lwming apd sketches, etc., over an ordinary telephone wire for very considerable distances, and within the period of a few seconds, thus, making a considerable advance over the old system of electric writing at a distance. He uses a low tension current, viz., 12 volts, in the transmitting and receiving boxi£, and his apparatus cdn be made an auxiliary of common telephonic communication, and, therefore, its commercial utilisation is ready to hand. Herr Grzanna's messages are passed through as f#st as they are written, and the transmitter uses the pencil naturally. Other systems require somewhat laborious handling of the transmitting mechanism, so that it takes about h*lf an hour to send and receive evdta a short .sentence. In fact, the Grzanna instrument is the autographic double of the voice in telephonic communications. One can actually speak and write or draw at the same time through the name wires, the telephone being connected with the apparatus through a condenser of two micrafarads.— Daily Mail.

For working in their gardens on a Sunday, five Chinamen, ranging- in age between 12 years and 40, were fined 5s each at the Auckland Police £ourt recently.

Six Chinese, who arrived by the Warrimoo last Wednesday, swelled the State exchequer by 4>600 poll-tox. Four o*hers who accompanied them had previously resided in New Zealand, and therefore had already paid the tax.

It is stated that the output of the Tanki (New Plymouth) cheese, factory for the present season has been sold to Pear ,?on and Butter, and that the price 6d per Jb., is the la-gest as yet reported jor the jo.ii. The factory will pay out Is Id.

According to a Parliamentary return, from February Ist, 1902, to June 30th, 1905, the number of convictions recorded for drunkenness in the Rang: t ike i electorate was 286, and 84 prohibition orders were issued. From July Ist, 1905, to June 30th, 1908, there were 552 «<>nvictious for drunkenness, and 105 prohibition orders were issued.