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Otago Witness, Issue 3619, 24 July 1923, Page 49

The Egyptian Government’s gift to the Sc-ience Museum at South Kensington of casts of two ancient Egyptian water clocks, one of which is 3000 years old. recalls an old water clock still in use in Canton. This was first erected about a.d. 1324. It has a history full of incident, and though it has been destroyed many times during invasions from without and riots from within the city, it has always been restored. To-day, in spile of (ho advances made in mechanical methods of measuring time, the old clock is si ill pul lo nractieal use. At intervals during the d.nv the (hore or less) correct rime is exhibited on a board outside tho building with houses it, and the native Cantonese are quite content to pin their faith to this unique servant, of old Father Time. A “world record” in washing dishes is claimed bv a hotel employee in a Philadelphian hotel, who “washed up” for 31 hours without stopping. ’Pile frosts have been so severe of late (says the Lake Wnkatipu Mail) that hen’s eggs have been cracked from point to point, and the contents formed into a solid lump of ice.