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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9255, 8 January 1889, Page 6

The catalogues of the books for the public Lending Library (branch of the Free Public Library), have arrived. It is not anticipated that any length of time will elapse before the lending branch is in operation. An addle-headed editor of an American journal is responsible for the following egg inquiry:—How can five men divide five eggs so that each man will receive one, and one remain on the dish ?

fjHRO N O M E T E R S. Why the Government are perpetually hoisting signals for the rating of chronometers is a thing " no fellah can understand." When ship's captains begin to recognise that they can trust tbeir Waterburys, no doubfc a great deal of successful navigation will be carried on by their aid. The Waterbury is rated to record correct time. Any other variety, whether sidereal, mean, or Greenwich, can be arranged for if desired. One of these watches set to time at midnight on the 818b December and wound regularly will, when the new year is as dead as the 010 one. still record the flight of time with tht same unerring accuracy as at the start. Thirteen and sixpence is well spent is one of these watches.