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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2283, 26 February 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

Paper bottles were patented in America in 1883, atidarenow being manufactured in large quantities. In the item of freight alone they will effect a saving of one-third less weight tli.au glass or stoneware, and are less liable to breakage. J )L'KfNi> the trial of Jlall at Duncdin for tlieniurder.ofCa.pt. (Jain, an enterprising draper named_ Halley. gut out a startling iidvcrtisutnent in the shape of an "'extra,', printed iu.large and small type, so as to read 'at first sight as " Hall is guilty." It created si bit of a sensation, but was universally condemned as a piece of_ very bad taste. There is sotrn talk of raising a question of contempt of Court. Next year is also the jubilee of the electric 'olograph in England— it might be said in r! e world. The iirst practical electric t'i-'graph was worked between J'Juston ,Station and Camden Town on the 25th July, IS3", by the Whcatstone instrument, which was patented on the li'th of June preceding, and as the (,>ueeu'« accession occurred on the 20th of June, the telegraph may be said to have been concurrent with her I'eign,