TELEGRAPHS. — A written or printed message or communication delivered at a post-office for the purpose of being transmitted as a postal telegraph, and every transcript thereof, is deemed to be a post letter within the meaning of the Post-Office Offences Act, 1837; but an officer of the post-office is not relieved from any liability which would have attached to a private telegraph company to produce such a message or communication in a court of law, for the purposes of evidence, when duly required so to do. No employee of a telegraph company may wilfully or negligently omit or delay to transmit or deliver a message, or improperly divulge to any person the purport of a message. To do so is to incur a heavy punishment. And no post office employee, also under pain of heavy punishment, may disclose, or in any way make known, or intercept a telegraphic message ; nor may he forge or wrongfully alter a message. Licenses may now be obtained to instal and
maintain wireless telegraph stations.
usual agreement between a telephone company and the user of a telephone creates the relationship of landlord and tenant between the company and the tenant. Therefore the acceptance of rent for a day beyond that upon which a notice to terminate the contract expired was held to act as a waiver by the company of that notice, and the court accordingly granted an injunction restraining the company from interfering with the wires and apparatus (Keith, Prowse 4- Co. v. National Telephone Co.). An ordinary telephone company has a right, as against a local authority, to carry its wires across the streets so long as they are placed at such a height as to cause no appreciable danger to the public or traffic in the street ( Wandszvarth District Board v. United Telephone Co.).