INGENIOUS FORECASTINGS.
A curiosity iii journalistic literature ; has been lately published. It consists in a copy of .the. Times for a.d. 1980, and the sheets are filled with extremely ingenious and amusing forecastings... In the Parliamentary summary supplied, for example, in'the' House of Ladies, Mrs Antipodes'is represented - as presenting.a petition praying for a direct railway from London to New • • Zealand, with branch lines to the various 'colonies of that flourishing kingdom, whilst J.n the House of Peeresses their Ladyships are reported - to be ordering a return of the cost of bringing the waters of the Nile to the metropolis. In the era treated of railway accidents appear to be out of date, but a long and sensational article is headed “ Terrible Balloon Collision.’ . Another article is devoted to furnishing the full details by telephone of a swim • >*- across the Atlantic; and the editor seems to think that the people-.of> a - hundred years hence will be capable of numerous feats of an .equally onerous nature. The advertisements columns are full of notices indicating considerable imaginative power on‘ the part of
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Kumara Times, Issue 1337, 13 January 1881, Page 2
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179INGENIOUS FORECASTINGS. Kumara Times, Issue 1337, 13 January 1881, Page 2
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