PIGEONGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2805, 9 February 1878, Page 2

PIGEONGRAMS.

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(MOM OVU OWK COIIfSPOKDIKT.) ' ' ■. I " r " • ■■-.•-' - t '■) , Paeioa,Thu day. .;, Mr Robsoa brought in the Waitekauri '"* Company's gold this morning, and it has been sent down to the Thames per a.s. Piako in charge of Mr T. Eneebone, who , also takes down a parcel from the Young «; New Zealand. The Company's gold weighs 354055, and the stuff crashed k<u< yielded about 9dwts to the ton, wfeMrii _r the usual average. The Young New Zealand parcol weighs 72Jom, and the stone crushed has averaged 15dwts to the ton. Mr Murray, M.H.8., arrived here from Waitoa yesterday, and left for the Thames this morning. Considerable interest was manifested this morning by a number of the resident! in Paeroa at some successful experiment* with a telephone, which had been constructed bj Mr H. D. Johnson. Conrersations were carried on by different persons from Mr ttobson'a store to Messrs Casirel and Bennett's Criterion Hotel, > and were distinctlj heard by the by. standers. The "mania" is developing, and Mr Albert Moore has started to make * another. Parchment is in demand. There - is no doubt that a wonderful discovery has been made by somebody who deserve* to have his name handed down to posterity, and it only now remains for some genius to perfect the arrangements. The action of electricity was accidentally discovered by Franklin flying a kite. What the telegraph now is, the telephone may shortly be—a universal medium of communication.