The Local Government Board has expressed a strong opinion that the appointment of a Dissenting minister as chaplain to the Southampton Workhouse (which has been recently made) is illegal. A remarkable engineering feat is in progress, viz , the crossing of the Andes by the Lima and Orva Railway. The mountains will bo tunnelled at 15,500 feet high, the tunnel being 3,000 feet long. The workmen are Chios Indians, no other men being capable of enduring the rarefied atmosphere.
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Evening Star, Issue 3253, 24 July 1873, Page 3
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78Untitled Evening Star, Issue 3253, 24 July 1873, Page 3
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