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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1239, 22 September 1911, Page 6

Preparations have been commenced for the cleaning of Cleopatra's Needle on tho Thames Embankment. No little anxiety has been felt as to tho durability of tho needle, especially since it is openly exposed to Londou's atmosphere. The'great monolith has passed through many vicissitudes from the time it stood in Heliopolis until it reached England in 1878, after being adrift in the Bay of Biscay, but it would appear that its most insidious onemy is the quiet and humid atmospero of the metropolis. It may not occur, to those who inspect the massive pedestal of the obelisk that contained therein is material by means of which those who come after can form nn estimate of the people who set up that monument on the banks of London's waterway. In a cavity nre the following articles:— Vellum account of the removal of the obelisk; Doulton ware; set of British coins; Indian coinage; translation of the hieroglyphics; standard gauge; Ouren Victoria's portrait; Bibles in many languages; a London directory; AVhitaker's Almanne; Bradshaw's Railway Guide; a shilling razor; case of cigars and pipes; box of hairpins; articles of female adornment; feeding bottle; several (oys: map of London; models of the "jacks" used for the raising of the obelisk; photographs of pretty women; a two-foot rule, mid other objects. Lord Stratbcona was ninety-one on August 0, and celebrated his birthday at his residence in Grosvcnor Square, London. He was Ihe recipient of numerous messages of congratulation from friends iu, i EQKlajitl and iu the ftversea dominions.