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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17777, 8 November 1919, Page 10

The lato Czar of Russia had as many crowns as a fashionable lady has hats. This is explained by tho fact that, regarded as ho was by his subjeots as a religious as well as a secular monarch, he had a crown for every possible Stato occasion. Besides the Russian Imuerial crown, he was also the possessor of the crowns of Astrakan. Crimea,« Poland, Kief, Kazan, Siberia, and Finland. In dealing with his annual report with errors in certain clocks at the RoyaJ Observatorv, Edinburgh, tho Astronomer-general for ScoMand says: "A suspicion has often arisen that tho docks mutually influence each othcr ; but it is difficult to obtain a demonstration." lie then gives figures in citing a case, Which he says is the most striking ono so far noted, and can hardly be a mere coincidence.