THE COLONIAL BANK CLOCK.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11808, 10 August 1900, Page 6

THE COLONIAL BANK CLOCK.

TO THE EDITOB Sir, —I desire-to inform "Two o'Clock Sharp " and others who may have been inconvenienced that I cannot' be held responsible for the above clock stopping on Wednesday at 1.4-5 p.m. ' ". The company owning the building arj having alterations made in the tower, and someone working there interfered with the pendulum and stopped the clock. As I was absent from town I did not know of this till this morning, hence the delay in starting the clock again. If "Two o'Clock Sharp" wishes further information I will be pleased to give it if he sends along his name and'address.—l am. etc., , . • . i C. H.'-Twebdie, , City Clock Contractor. Dunedin, August 9,

— The Munich papers report that a Munich sportsman has driven an automobile threequarters of the way up tho Herzogenstand. which is 1757 metres high. He was prevented from getting farther by a defect in the gearing, but was able to return the whole way on his motor. The Herzogenstand is approached by a beautiful road, built by Louis 11. The King had a hut built on tho summit, which he was fond of visiting, and which was burnt down by lightning a few years ago;; The road to the Herzogenstand has many sharp turns, which were rendered safe for the RoyaJ carriages by fixing trunks of trees at each angle. ■ '

— A bird's nest has been found in the middle of an occupied beehive. A pair oi great tits, near Ludlow, last spring, built their nest and laid 12 eggs in a vacant spact among the combs of, a, large beehive, with the swarm in. full swing of honey-gathering upon all sides of thorn. Both birds and beea wont in and out by the same entrance, and neither seemed to object in the least to the presence of the other, as the bees were making honey fast; and when the hive was opened 12 eggs were found in the nest.