IN 2001.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7372, 25 January 1902, Page 2

IN 2001.

The Times prints every day extracts from its columns of one century ago. The Express, preferring to speculate as Lo the future, presents a few remarks from its columns one century hence :—

Sir Thomas Lipton, junior, having again being defeated for the America Cup, announces his intention of challenging next year with a Shamrock LVIII.

A railless and carriageless railway is projected between London and Liverpool. The passengers shin up a polo and are projected by wireless impulse to a pole 200 miles away, when they proceed to shin down. All the equipment the railway company needs is a pair of poles and a dynamo.

The Weather Bureau announces the list of days on which it will rain next month. It is observed that all the Sundays will be fine. As the Bureau has not made a single mistake for eight years, our readers can make their flying machine excursion arrangements in perfect confidence as far as the weather is concerned.

The voting age is to be reduced to five for boys and four for girls, the latter being the more precocious, and as well developed and intelligent as their great - great - grandmothers ' were at twenty. There are three members of Par 1 ament who are barely nine, and a mem ber of the Cabinet, Mr Churchill Winston, who has just turned fourteen.

The War Office, which has for some time been run by the editor of The Times, has been moved down to Printing House Square, and placed on the top floor of The Times buildings, so that the publishers of the newpaper can remo ve without any vexatious delay all the generals that displease them.