Miscellaneous Items.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1560, 19 November 1885, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items.

"' ' 'JiihgWd has scoffed an engiueeriiig .^Jtiiujnph which, though leas aensatiptfal, may rival the ; piercing 'of . Moiiiyt St. Grithardov of the Aylliei'g, i arid has, rierhiips,l>(?eD. beset, jby • greater difficulties. - Atter .12 . .yeajra' work (snya tli» Houm JVeios), Mr W. Eichard^on, .the engineer of the Great Western rail>vay. has suqeeed^d-in • : 'driving a tUnnelfour and 'a lml f miles lo!ng urttier the Bristol Channel,* where it becomes a. stormy arm of the '■ sean\dre fcliair two apAahalf jtnilea m wWtli. Tne v sea m mid-channel is ■> only some 49|t pr;soft ft ora ■ fhe crown •'• of the tunnel's archy which is ipi>actically a hnge ; tube; of brick,. -/ This ,'.fweek the. first fy'eat Western train mi 'to run l through, and [ $e;ad™nfcages of 'the Inuriei will, aoon becoine^apparent. It will shorten. the route from- LonW ,d(>nt^ South' Wales, which i now nedes- . Hitates iaxfietoiiE %^(3;}oucestier| a^nd;; : fib will- also' bring, the min.ing , <] istribts of South Wiilesinto elo.se communi^ation. with Bristol.^ Mrllichardsoii is a pupil%f Brunei's. His master liad jato^con.tend .with the breajcim;-in I of l\jre'T|a^es when he? en^iiieereil his * mmou^-tuimel; v lkMer Ethft^ Severn difficulties have been occjisiptied by the presence of abWdant 'suntierrane^n springs aloug the line selected. . i Intelligence lias been received that afwaterspout has 'V)urst near Lagos m ( Mexico, and j>rod need terrible effects. At Pnebla Cuaranta the water m a i.frtWi uiinuliefi xose. to,a, ; height .of i 25 feet, tlie flood .«weeping- down the .valley and' destroying everything . .w'hibh oppewed it. More' than" liyes were lost, and great distress prevails. .A waterspout burst about a naile above the large'jbown of Gaana-. jaato, coveiing the entire ' place with a body of 'water six*, feet deep* ;An entertainment was being given at the; theatre m bonniir of ex-Preaid^uti Gpozale when the watorsDOut* burst ' The bbildin^ was crp>vd d J An ; ala ; rm ■was " giveiiV cau?itig L a wild panic/ /Ryerynn?. ruf«hed to the , doors, lailiea •/: faintiugViind the J , wedk : were? foam^ed . liponl Many \pers6ri^; ! AVere fatally ihjureii', a-Vd 'several Were /killed. • The floods Hn tlie Streets forced , open , ;V»:Vn'y do.i »ra,' infl ictirig *damage which; ; is Mti maled 'at' n»V)re Xihaxx 1 00,000 1 "tlnilars. There wiis a' lar^e \oss of, li|^\Jt.is.»ta^.'thaf..i7P'Aettd I'-bodies»,1 '-bodies», <hayc* teen found. ' " '" ■