MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 74, 7 February 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

A plan bas been started at Madrid for constructing an Inter-continental Tunnel, to unite Europe and Africa by a tunnel under the Straits of Gibraltar, It is proposed that it should start from a point between Tarifa and Algesiras on the Spanish coast, and come out between Centa and Tangiers on the African coast, The submarine part of the tunnel would be only nine miles long, bat with. u| incline of 1 in 100. The tunnels of approach would be nearly six miles long, on each side. The maximum depth of there* at this point is said to be 3000 ft., and as a "crust" of 300 ft, is to be left between the bottom of the sea and the arch of the tunnel, the latter will hare to be 3000 ft. below the level of the sea. The originator* of the scheme are of opinion that the cost will not exceed £4,000,000 sterling, and they argue that, with this tunnel and that between Dorer and Calais open, them would be an ererland route from London to India without change of callage, if desired ! Curiously enough* the last font or fire years, as we learn from the leading Jewish, journals, have witnessed the retain of Jews to Palestine from all parts of the world, bat more especially from Russia* altogether unprecedented. ThelfcVmt population of Jerusalem is now double what it was ten yean ago, Qreat accessions still continue to b* mad* to* this element of the population, and while ten years ago the Jews were confined fan their own quarter in thjeir own ancient city (the poorest and worst, as usual), they now inhabit all parts of it, and ar« always ready to hire every house that it to be let* Western capital, too, ia. beginning to flow into Judea, andj aqueducts, railways, post offices, steamers, mammoth hotels, will ere long have at-, tracted the stream of travel and of commerce to the old, land that has been a

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