WORLD'S CLOCK WONDER.
COCK AND ROARING LION. What is claimed to be the largest and most complicated clock in the world is being built ' for the lower of the new cathedral at Messina. Apart from allowing the usual phases of the moon, the position of the astronomical bodies, the tides and seasons of the year, and so forth, it will include a number of bronze, figures winch will enact scenes symbolical ol tho seasons, the days of the week, tho quarter-homs, and incidents in tho history of Messina. A cock on top of the tower will crow at sunriso and sunset and a lion will roar, wag its head, and wavo its tail at noon. The hours will bo struck by figures representing Dina and Olarenza, two peasant girls, who in 1282 warned tho cilv of tho approach of the army of Charles of Anjou (1226-1285), King o Naples and Bicilv. The clays of the week will repiesented by mythological characters and tho quarter-hours by a baby, a youth, a warrior, and an old man. ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20650, 23 August 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)
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175WORLD'S CLOCK WONDER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20650, 23 August 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)
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