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New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 62, 4 July 1874, Page 14

According to an American paper, a building in San Francisco |hat has 500 rooms is to have a clock with 500 dials—a dial for each room. The dials will be operated with condensed air, conducted in pipes all over the building. A carrier pigeon, about four months old (says the 'Thames Advertiser) which had been trained here,, was taken to Auckland oa Monday, and despatched to th» Thames with a message regarding the result of the race* next day. Although the weather was most uo. favorable, the bird arrived with its message exactly fifty-one minutes after it was released on the racecourse.