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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 290, 17 July 1875, Page 3

A Literaby Class.—Builders; they are always finishing stories. Captain Sewell (latent the 57th Regiment) who is on his way to England, is on a visit to Taranaki. Having seen the neglected state of the graves there of the men b longing to his regiment who fell during the war, he has given orders for new fences to be erected and the graves cleaned of the furze thi. t is now grow ing over them. Tzleobaphihg Mvsical Sound. —A curious and striking invention, called a “tele phone,” the effect of which is to telegraph musical sound, and even tunes, through any length of wire, has been made it is said, by Hr Elisha Gray, of Chicago. The keys of an instrument are connected with electro-mag-nets, so that touching a key, the corresponding magnet is set in operation, and a tongue or reed in connection with it is set vibrating; the sound each of these tongu.-s gives out is transmitted a thousand miles by wire, ami there received on a reflecting surface, the tune being distinctly heard. Mr Gray hopes one day to be able to transmit the sound of the human voice also by telegraph, so that we might talk to each other audibly across the Atlantic ; but towards this curious result nothing seems to have been yet done, nor has it ever been easy to resolve articulate sounds jptp wpre yjbratipnj.