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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 170, 25 November 1876, Page 2

There is scarcely a newspaper published from orte end of the year to the other that will not,- if critically considered, give offence to somebody in the community. Tire politician objects to the way his Speech is reported. The buyer of one set of shares are offended because the money column reports another set as going up or' going down. Gentlemen who find themselves in the hands of the police are' grieved at the license of the press, which reports their arraignment and trial among the police proceedings. The newspaper’ thus offends some one, just as the weather —rainy to-day and sunshine to-morrow—■ is sure to annoy somebody. The commonsense view is that the newspaper is the history of yesterday written to-day ; that it is tbe mirror of the time, arid that those' who conduct it care nothing for individuals,- except to do them justice. Professor Bell has so perfected his invention of transmitting sound over the electric wires, that musical notes can be' distinctly conveyed by telegraph. By means of his phonetic organ, the professor recently transmitted from Boston to a New York telegraphic operator, over his wires, the tunes “ America” and “ Auld Lang Syne,” which Were distinctly beard and recognised. . He is now at work perfecting his apparatus, by which he hopes to convey between distant points, in a similar manner,the tones of the human voice*