THE STRASBURG CLOCK.

Kumara Times, Issue 2889, 1 February 1886, Page 2

THE STRASBURG CLOCK.

The most remarkable clock which has ever been invented is that which has made the Strasbnrg Cathedral minster famous throughout the world. Patieutly we have waited for some weeks and months past in the hope that the model of this great clock which has been exhibited in all the large towns of New Zealand, might reach us on the Coast. And we have to-day the pleasure of announcing that this wonderful piece of mechanism—a perfect facsimile of the great astronomical, musical, and apostolic clock of Strasburg—is to be exhibited in Kumara, at the Theatre Royal, for four days in this week viz., Wednesday,

Thuis-h.y, Friday and Saturday, from 2 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon, or from 7 to 10 in the evening. This extraordinary piece of hovological mechanism shows the years, the leap years, the months, the days of the month, the days of the week, the hours of the day, the monthly changes and phases of the moon, the solar and lunar cycles, the epacts, the eclipses of the Sun, the day of the week npou which any event happened for a hundred years, the right ascension of the planets Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, the place of the Sun in the circle of the Zodiac, the equation of time, the geometric ascension of the Sun north and south, and an Ecclesiastical Calendar calculated for ever; every hour a procession of chariots bearing the deities representing the days 0 the week; every quarter hour the movement of the Four Ages of Man passing before Father Time (who strikes on the bell) while the cherub reverses the hour-glass ; then the grand procession of Apostles moving in solemn march before the Savour, 'raid the chiming of musical bells, the pealing of the organ, and tho loud tolling of the tower bell.