Ten thousand men, mostly from Jamaica, are at work upon the Panama Canal, and the statement is made that the project will be completed in five years. Well founded, if not true, is the story that when Lord Wolseley attended St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, on a recent occasion, the anthem was Handel’s “ Egypt was glad when they departed.”
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 29, 2 January 1884, Page 3
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58Untitled Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 29, 2 January 1884, Page 3
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