%$ True Time. 



fully distended no more wine or other liquid can be drawn 

 off. 



In conclusion, with respect to this apparatus being self- 

 acting and efficient, you are now in a position to form your 

 own opinions ; and with regard to its expense, this will, 

 in a measure, depend upon the number or size of the casks 

 to which it is applied. I may mention, however, that while 

 each bung requires to be fitted with two stopcocks, one 

 cistern may be made to supply all the casks in the cellar, 

 and the small funnel and elastic tube being portable, and 

 only used occasionally, will answer for filling up any number 

 of casks. It is scarcely necessary to add, that all the metal 

 coming in contact, with the wine should* be tinned or 

 silvered. 



As a simple invention, I have protected it in this and the 

 adjacent colonies, with the object of at once taking out 

 patents. 



Art. VIII. — On a Plan for maintaining True Time 



throughout the City, and on the Railways. 



By Mr. K. L. J. Ellery, President. 



[Read 8th June, 1868.] 



1 think everyone will admit that it is desirable that 

 clocks exposed for public reference, or for the regulation of 

 railway or other traffic, should be kept absolutely correct, or 

 at all events, as nearly correct, and consequently alike in 

 their indications, as possible. In this age, time is money to 

 most people ; and the value that may be attached to a single 

 minute in many cases, would, I have no doubt, be more 

 than the whole cost of providing the means of maintaining 

 one absolute and reliable measure of time throughout the 

 city. That the clocks which are exposed for public reference 

 in our streets, in the shop windows and at the railway- 

 stations, do differ in their indications, and often to a serious 

 extent, is well known. How many a punctual business man 

 on his way to the railway or to an appointment gets 

 perplexed at the varying value of the precious period yet at 

 his disposal, as he consults various clocks' faces on his road, 

 each professing to indicate true time. 



We may not be quite so bad as Paris was a century ago, 

 Avhere Delambre says the same hour could be heard striking 

 in the different parts of the city over at least half-an-hour of 



