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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 243, 31 October 1873, Page 3

The work at. Oam.-a-u with the bigcrane seems to be -proceeding satisfactorily. The -Dune din ' Star 5 says : —The recent few days of line weather at Gamaru Lave enabled operations at the harbor works to be pushed 111 with greater rapidity than for some past. Some ten blocks have been placed in situ within the past four or live days, and : the ' Times* says with a smooth sea for the next two or thre.e weeks the wall .will be considerably extended. Indeed, two or three months should suffice to carry it out far enough to allow of a steamer loading, or discharging alongside. Each of these "blocks it will be remembered weigh about 40 tons and are made of concrete. In an old book of sermons, by an obsc\ire; divine, iramed Milsom, we are told that "It is one, among many proofs of the wisdom and benevolence of Providence, that the world was not created in the mid's't of winter, when Adam and Eve could have found nothing to eat, but in harvest time, when - there was fruit ojv. every tree and shrub to.tempt the willing hand."