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The Electrical News and Telegraphic Reporter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Electrical News and Telegraphic Reporter write by Anonymous. This book was released on 2013-09. The Electrical News and Telegraphic Reporter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... &-c. Full Sentences. Abbreviations. Figures. Instead of repeating back figures, as is the rule at present, they are to be sent over again after the end oi the message. to botany THE TELEGRAPHIC CONFERENCE AT ST. PETERSBURG. The Paris correspondent of the Times, writing on the 16th inst., gives an outline of the principal discussions at the recent International Telegraphic Conference. One of the first questions raised was that of Sunday labour. Mr. H. C. Fischer, of the English Post Office Telegraphs, claimed the right of a limited day service on Sundays for those offices which have a complete day service. This, he said, was necessary on account of the suspension of nearly all labour on Sundays. On the proposal of M. Vincent (Belgium), who objected to exceptions in favour of particular States, it was agreed that any country may limit the hours of Sunday service, notifying this measure to the International Bureau, which will apprise the other States. The question of responsibility for the correct transmission and delivery of messages was brought up by the French delegates, who proposed that, as to messages on which an extra sum is paid for insurance, there should be some fixed limit of responsibility. To this it was objected that words difficult to transmit or copy might be used on purpose to set up a claim to compensation, and the Committee to which the proposal was referred reported ty five to three against it. M. Ailhaud (France) urged on its behalf that registered letters had never produced lawsuits or inconvenience, but he was, willing to exclude cypher messages and to limit compensation to cases where the telegram had manifestly not fulfilled its object. As to the fact that in France scarcely two messages in 10,000 are...