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Otago Daily Times, Issue 12248, 11 January 1902, Page 6

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Dully limes Office, Friday evening. Ihe amount of revenue collected at the Dunedin Custom House to-day on goods cleared for consumption was £861 Us sd. .Messrs Dalgety and Co. desire m to correct :i slip made in their wool sale report in statins that the ttiketoi clip bdomrcd to Mr R. S. Charters.' Tin, was an error.'Mr Hi'i-tin Shennnn being the owner of this wool. INVESTMENT STOCKS. The Runrdin Stork Exchange reports quotations as follows yesterday:— National Ir.sufauce.-Buyers 19s, sellers JOs ltd. Insurance-Buyers 10s Gd, sellers . Union Strati)— Buyers £11. WMtpnrt Cca'.-Buyerj 795, sellers S2s. Coimserml Proncrty-Scllera 3a Cd. National Mortgase-Sellera Soa 6d. Codward's Pin—Buyers Is a<l, sellers 3s. OaJiiaru Wiollou—liuyovs 50s, sellers 355. U'Leod's Soap—Sellers JEM 5s — An apparatus has been invented styled the " elect iwhord," which is designed to sustain Ihn notes oi the piano as in the iluto or violin. A row of delicate electrical contacts is connected with keyboard and with a row of little electro-magnets in front <if Ilio string, so that wliilc any key 13 pressed the correspondini; magnet keeps its string in continuous vibration, with very beautiful flute-like effects. A knee Bweil throws the attachment into notion, and when tills is not boing pressed the piano has its usual tone,. The suggestion (observes Science, Sifting.') seems toopen up a path for other new inventions.