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Todd considers adopting Sydney use of tricycles for telegraph messengers
Discussion of bicycles versus tricycles
Time ball visibility needs improving
Trees and structures are obscuring visibility.
Todd judging results on microphone and time globe
Acting as an Exhibition judge of Melbourne made microphone and locally supplied time globes (determines relative time at various places on the earth)
Todd to speak on transit of Mercury, east coast storms, new Transit circle at Observatory
At an upcoming meeting at the Royal Society of South Australia
Todd denies buying postal machinery from Melbourne
Concern that local manufacturers get the work
Todd only inspected stamp machinery in Melbourne
Number of cheques, bills of lading and promissory notes embossed. Todd sources a new design for postage & revenue stamps. Details how the machinery and designs work. Praise for the results.