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Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1923, Page 4

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23-STONE POLICEMAN". 1-OX DON. September 12. Derbyshire lifts .just lost its biggest policeman, Thomas -Milhvanl. o!' Carr Yale, mar Bolsover. who luis retired alter lending weight: to the law for 2-i ye nr.-. ••P.ig Tom’’ as he was known in the force, weighs nearly 23 .stone and is atom 6 feet 3 inches in height. lh‘ lias taken a post- as a watchman at a woollen factory. JI'HVS ADVFXTniK. LONDON. September 12. Members oi the Old Bailey jury at tile tri.d nf Mine Falimy were locked n\> for half an hour in an hotel billin'd ronin owing to the inotor-coaeli in which they were being taken for a diive breaking tloivn in Archway-road. llighpatc. on Monday evening. The officials in charge adopted this method of keeping the juiy. wliieh included two women, from having communication with ihe outside world while waiting for another imiior-oo.uh. Some of the jurors played billiard- 1 during their detent ion. FKESiI IAT \ VAT lONS ON THE" SITE OF /lON. CITY OF DAVID. .IEHCSALKM, Sept. 12. Fn( a vat ions on the si l e nf Ihe a indent City nf David, near here, are likely to begin in the next few days. Professor It. A. S. Mae,Mister, id the Palestine 'Exploration Fund, has decided on the site to be excavated, and the Oovernment is now negotiating for a lease of the land. The spot selected nioasuics approximately IUO.t.

by ]2-sft., and Mot at id» north 9nd of .Mount Ophel, which is lolioved to be t lie site of the ancient Jebusitc fortress a short distance* outside the present city wall. It is to the north-west of the Virgin's Well, from which the famous Hezekiah’s conduit, discovered in 1880. runs to the pool of Siloain. I.’jofe.-sor Alstealister's site is adjacent to the loiiiccru'cd line of the ancient wall of the Ciiy of David. Tt- is probable that only two months* work will be possible this year before the winter rains begin, and that next spring, bc*:cl>s Professor Plater,lister. Professor Weill will begin work on Baron Jtothschild's property ;it the smithern end of Mount Ophel. and the Palestine .Jewish Exploration Society will operate on the centre of the hill