A branch of British trade which has very much developed of late at Warsaw and other parts of Russia is that of bicycles. A recreation ground on the house-top has been made by a firm of printers in London. It is for the use of their employees. Garden seats and games, shrubs and plants have been established on the leads, and a very pleasant open space is said to be the result. The American Line steamer New York, which left Southampton, August 18th, beat the record by 59 minutes. Passengers who had breakfasted' in London on the Saturday were enabled to dine in New York on the following’ Friday. The ;North-Eastern Railway Company has been examining an invention by which all signals can be worked automatically by trains, and switching be accomplished by an arrangement of levers on the engine and on the permanent way.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1188, 7 December 1894, Page 29
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