CONFERENCE, (The Electrician, 21st June.) ting on this subject, the above paper says it seems that the public is hardly cognisant of the method of procedure, hence some of its readers "are wonder-ling why no description of the work done has yet been given. In the first place the meetings are not open to the public, and only such matters as the members deem desirable are permitted to make their appearance in the columns of the unofficial Press. It is a question of honour that no one present divulges for the purposes of publication the proceedings of the meeting. We think the course adopted a wise one in not publishing the debates on each question; indeed" this would be difficult, as each question is in the first place submitted to a committee, and when it has been thoroughly and exhaustively discussed, a report is presented to the full meeting containing the results of the discussion and the anggestions of the committee. The work of the Conference has, up to the present, been almost exclusively that of committee, and such questions as those relating to rules, tariffs, and codes are receiving consideration, The re-sulls, as above stated, will be formulated for discussion in full Conference. Practically there has been as yet only one full sitting, that on June 11th, the opening meeting on the 10th being wholly of a formal character. We are sorry to see that the ery of "Wolf, wolf," when there is no wolf, has again gone forth, and that several letters have appeared in The Times on the subject of the number of letters to be allowed per word. We shall hardly be accused of divulging secrets if we say that the action these letters contemplate has never entered the minds of the delegates—still less found a place in their proceedings. The public need be under no alarm, the tendency of the work, entrusted as it is to able and practical men, is to free rather than to restrain, to consider the claims of the public rather than those of the telegraph administrations, and to give all that can equitably be asked; the danger, in fact, being that too great liberty will be given, which renders it difficult for private enterprise to compete with the Government administration. We trust to be able from time to time to give our readers as early information as can be obtained of the real work of the Con-
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