AN ANCIENT CLOCK.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12496, 24 March 1909, Page 1

AN ANCIENT CLOCK.

When the city of Dunedin was a scattered hamlet, and yet the principal town of a- province that was juSt in the grey dawn of its prosperity, Captain, Cargill, Superintendent of the Settlement, purchased from Dent, of London, a large clock, which he hung near the Speaker's chair in tho hall in which the Provincial Council periodically assembled. That 'was sixty years ago, says the "Otago Daily Times," and the old clock, passing through many vicissitudes, has solemnly ticked out the days and months and decades. It hung for long in the Normal School, until . once more a change in the order of things moved it on, and the Hon. T. Fergus, taking an interest in- the venerable timekeeper, it found its most recent resting place in the Otago Education Board's "room. On Wednesday the Board, in conclave assembled, bequeathed the instrument, in trust, to the Early Settlers' Museum, where it will once more be associated with the original chair and table used by the Speaker of the Provincial Coun. oil. ■ .