OUR LONDON LETTER.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6289, 21 September 1898, Page 4

OUR LONDON LETTER.

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES. [From Our Correspondent.] . LONDON, .August 15. A JUBILEE CLOCK. Messrs John Moore and Sons, of Clerkenwell Close, have now completed the alterations and repairs to the clock which they made for Christchurch tower m 1800, and a couple of months hence the pa.sso.ge «>f u.n« will be marked for inhabitants ol that crty by quarter-hourly doses of the " Westm .nster chimes." The " pot-opal " dials of the new clock are five feet in diameter, and tor tho | sake of permanency the hour figures and tho ■ minute divisions are of copper, as^o are the hands, both being enamelled black, in order to show the better against the white dials. The bells are five in number, and of hemispherical design. The chimes are struck on the first four, the duty of notifying the hours being delegated to the tenor bell, . which, with its companions was cast by Warners, of ClerkenwelL They are. a musi- , cal quintette, and guaranteed not_ to exacerbate tlie most "critical ear. For the.sake_ of , what is technically known as greater draft . tlie third and fourth are fitted with double ! hammers, and all five are hung upon a mas- - sive oak framing, which can bs taken- to pieces with the aid of an ordinary screwhammer, and is quito independent of the mechanism of the clock. The whole arrangement of the timepiece, indeed, has been made with a view to facilitating the necessary cleaning operations and incidental repairs. Messrs Moore, who, by the way, celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the firm this month, have another Diamond Jubilee clock in course of constructs for "some place up-country m New Zealand," with an outlandish name, which Mr Moorj could not! call to mind. Hie onri'»<-<sliUrph:..cldck. 1 will be this ■ month.- '■"'■■" . "