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Mataura Ensign, 25 January 1912, Page 5

Telephone subscribers in Hamburg will in future be able to regulate their clocks by means of signals sent out from the observatory. Anyone who wants to put Tiis clock or watch right will have merely to ring up the exchange and ask for the time signals to be switched on. As many as two thousand rag-pickers find employment about the streets of New York. They are mostly Italians, who have displaced the Irish and Germans, who used to do the work. Their gatherings of rags are valued at £150,000 a year. The hand-cart dealors do a business of £600,000 u venr.