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Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 158, 3 September 1881, Page 2

If no outwavd accident occurs, it is expected that the English Channel tunnel —that is, the header, or seven- foot gallery, — will be completed m five years. ; A naval court-martial recently held at Hongkong . n:ntencer» sub-Lieutenant Sandbam, of H.B.M.S. Iron Duke, to' twelve months' imprisonment and dismal f.om the service for falsification of accounts. Lord Denman drives a horse about the streets of London that wears spectacles. It was found to he near-sighted, and the k'nd-hearted owner successfully tried the experiment of putting on rectifying S ees." So says the Chicago • Living Church. . The Pooi. of Siloam. — Professor Sayce, m a recent lecture at Oxford, told a little story concerning the Hebrew inscription just discovered at Jerusalem. A hoy was the fo; iunate finder. .He fell into the pool of Siloam, and when, he rose to the surface was not too much absorbed ia the thought of saving himself to miss sight of some characters cut on the side of the rock tunnel. On getting \ out., he mentioned what he had seen, and the result has been the discovery and the partial deciphering of what is believed to be the most ancieat Hebrew inscription kaaira.

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