Customs Clock in Operation: To Ring in the New Year at Midnight The new Customs clock is. now fanetioning accurately, and will be standard time at midnight to-night (New Year's Eve). Shang~ hat has thus once more secured eorrect zone time, and the communities, Chinese and foreign, will appreciate the convenience which results. The mechanism of the clock has' been carefully adjusted, and the makers fuaranteo that it will not vary more than about 15 seconds a month, bout an average of half a second ver day. "We think that Mz. Maze might well adopt a Shakespearian phrase and say:—The time (and wa yuan here astronomical tine and to not refer to the political situa-out of joint, Oh cursed spite ever war born to set understand that the Gommissioner of Customs recommends that all public clocks in Shanghai should now be synchronized with ig Ching. It can be seen that in many places public clocks ary from each other, and obvious: Ly this recommendation should be adopted. The bells possess very sical tones, and the impressively sonorous how-bell, weighing over six tons, should be heard on still ights almost anywhere in Shang-ai, while during the day the chimes will fudicate the march of time, and audible at a considerable dis-from the Customs House, but he roar of the traffic during the lay: naturally prevents them being: heard distinctly. at times, Chi-ko, a detective attached to Shanghai Cotton Mill (Japanese), in Yangtszepoo Road, who was shot and wounded on November last, passed away in St, Luke's Hospital,
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