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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5565, 29 January 1879, Page 3

Mr. Oolman, M.P., has so applied some of Mr. Edison’s newest improvements to his private wire between London and Norwich (a distance of 115 miles), that even on a day of great electric disturbance, a telephonic conversation was carried on easily between London and Norwich, and the accent and pronunciation of the American interlocutor (who was at the Norwich end) were easily distinguished in London. The voices of both speakers were best heard when conversation was carried on in a rather low tone. Further, it is stated that Mr. Edison has invented an improvement by which a whisper communicated to the telephone can be heard at a distance of fourteen feet from the receiver at the other end, so that he hopes soon to make the general conversation of one room audible in another room hundreds of miles away ; while, of course, every English ' Club might have a House-et-Commons room, where one could sit at one’s ease and hear the whole debate in all its length. If this should be actually achieved, what will not the member of the future endure, any one of whose constituents may become a telephonic auditor of all his rambling utterances, his grammatical blunders, and his local mistakes 1 The Spectator considers that the wav with Afghanistan is unjustifiable, aid puts the following case:—The civilised must acknowledge that the first rule of justice is to treat tlie feeble as we should, if feeble, but fully intelligent, think we ourselves ought to be treated. Have wo observed that rule as regards the Ameer ? Should we think it fair if China demanded that a resident Ambassador entitled to give advice should be permanently stationed in Calcutta, and on our refusal should flood India with Chinese troops, and demand as the least concession that China should obtain both sides of the Himalayas, lest otherwise we might invade Thibet by the Sikkim or the Bootan route. Hoilowav’s Ointment and Pills. —Sore Throats, Diphtheria, and Bronchitis.-These medicamentsboidly face the evils they profess to remedy. Local relief and general purification progress together; disease is cured, while the whole system is cleansed, Holloway s Ointment rubbed on the throat and chest exercises the most beneficial influence over sore throats, diphtheria, and cough, whether resulting from catarrh, asthma, or bronchitis. This unguent acts miraculously in arresting the cxtsnsiins of sores, healing ulcerations, curing skin diseases, and completely stopping all destructive inflammation, irrespective of its exciting cause, character, situation, duration, or severity. Holloway’s Ointment, aided by ids Tills, gives most immediate and most marked relief to those irritating itebings and painful swellings of the shins occasioned by mercury or latent syphilitic virus.

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