Mr Donald Murray, the inventor, has sold the rights of his system of printing and transmitting telegrams to the British Post Office and Western Union Telegraph Company.
According to the New York Times, Mr Murray's system is based on the Baudot system, but does away with the five keys and the necessity of learning their intricate combinations. The operator uses a typewriter keyboard.
The machine prints directly on the delivery form, and automatically pages up for the next message.
Mr Murray was brought up on a farm in New Zealand. For several years he was a journalist in Sydney, and later went to New York with a telegraphic printing device, and was employed as an engineer by the Postal Telegraphic Company, during which time, and also for five years at the London General Post Office, he worked on his multiplex telegraphic system.
Two years ago he sold the United States rights of this system to the Western Union, and when interviewed by the New York Times was on a visit to see the progress being made with the development and manufacture of the apparatus in America.
• There is too much officialdom in the Northern Territory, according to Mr Monteith Hooper, a surveyor there.
He told a Sydney reporter a few days ago that the Government experiments had failed, and an exodus of the white population had set in, the accommodation on all the steamers leaving Darwin during the past couple of months and for the next couple of months having been fully booked.
It was no place for a white working man. The only way the Territory could be developed was by coolie labour. He would not favour throwing open the gates wide to the hordes of the East, but it might be practicable to admit a certain number of selected coolies every year under restrictions.
That was the only way to get the ''navvying'' work done. White men would not do it, unless the conditions were made extraordinarily attractive. The climate in the wet season was atrocious.
• Complaints that pickpockets were operating were made to the police at Auckland last week by persons who had visited Wirth's Circus, and by those who were present on Saturday afternoon at the representative cricket match at Eden Park.
At the cricket match during the afternoon tea adjournment, Detective Hammond, while in the crowd around a booth, made an arrest. He stated that he saw a man who said he was a recent arrival from Australia, put his fingers into the hip pocket of another person.
The detective took his man to a store at Kingsland, where he was searched, and no less a sum than 127 was found on him.
He was taken to the city police station, and just after his arrival the storekeeper at whose shop accused was searched, reported that he had found, under his counter, a purse containing a small sum of money.
This purse, it was found was the property of Mr H. Pollard, and was the subject of a complaint made to the police earlier in the day.
• Rangiwahia residents take a great deal of interest in the Territorials and cadets.
On Monday week a lad travelled six and a-half miles in heavy rain to drill. He had no overcoat, and was wet through to the skin.
A Rangiwahia resident, hearing of the boy's predicament, and that the boy could not afford to buy a coat, has given an order for an overcoat for the lad. - ODT, 3.4.1914.
