TIME BALL, LYTTELTON.
The time ball is dropped daily. Sondav, and holiday* excepted, at 1 (/clock p. no., New Zealand mean time, which is equivalent 6018.30 Greenwich mean time of the previous day, being calculated for the XlQ> SOI East longitude, and UUr 30raio fest of Greenwich mean time. The boll will be raised at abqut Smin *o I mm,, and will be at the top about Ijnbi to I p.ro. When taking the time be careful to Bote the eiaot moment the ball leaves the feep of the mast. Should the bail nnfe drop at the proper ttate, 1C will be kept as the top for at lease w&mtautea. and then lowepetl aiowiy.
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7872, 25 May 1891, Page 4
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