Counsel in a recent libel case having commented on tho circumstance .all the witnesses opposed to him had deposed to "half an hour" as the time occupied by every incident referred to, Mr Justice Field observed that "in the coarse of a long experience he had discovered that the only people. who take note of time are those who prove 'alibis,' and they always look at the clock wherever they go, and always enter the time in their pocketbooks when they get home." Tho Presbyterian Assembly of Melbourne uro making strong protests against the running of trains on Christmas Day, as proposod by tho railway authorities. A New York elevator firm is making two hydraulic elevators for the great Paris tower. There will be six in all, four running 500 ft up, and two going the other 500 ft.
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Evening Star, Issue 7409, 3 January 1888, Page 2
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139Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 Evening Star, Issue 7409, 3 January 1888, Page 2
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