TARGET ALLOTMENTS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 76, 1 April 1910, Page 3

TARGET ALLOTMENTS.

At the week-end rifle shooting matches at Trnntham to-morrow the allotment of target 3 will be as follows : — Collins Range, 200, 500, and 600 yards.—Thirdol«sh Shield Final. Sommerville Range, 200 and 600 yards. — Dominion Scouts, 1-2; Post and Telegraph Rifles, 3-5; Civil Service Rifles, 6-7; Karori Rifle Club, 8-11; Guards, 12-13; Highland Rifles, 14-15 ; Petone Navals, 16. Scddon Range, 800 and 900 vnrd6.— Zealandia Rifles, 1-3. Our remote ancestors used to tell the time by the sun, without the aid of clocks, and after centuries of time-pieces, more or less elaborate, we are returning to this ancient simplicity , though with a difference, says a London writer. Greenwich time, which rules the world, is' fixed daily by observations, iolar and sidereal, and as transmitted by electricity to various important centres. This has been going on for many year*. But there has been a development of this system within the ]at>t decade. In a paper which Mr. P. Hopo-Jonep read before tho Institution of Electrical Kngineers recently on "Modrn Electric Time Service" he gave an account of the wonderful advanco which has been inudo in the system. The Synehronomo Company hns performed much the name servue for clock? as Professor Meichnikoff proposes for the hunmn being. It has removed the large intestine) 1 , and many public institution? and private firm; arc now equipped with synchronous electric clocks which never require winding up. The motive power is an electrically driven pendulum which will operate any number of electrical impulse clocks. One little dry coll costing a shilling,' it is claimed, contain:- enough electricity to work forty clocks for foui years. The time cannot be lar distant when our watches will be worked by wireless elcitricity, arid foi jetting to wind them will become an .obsolete excue*.