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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 32, 5 January 1884, Page 3

Ex-Governor Stanford of California recently bought 12,000 acres adjoining his big vineyard at Vina, in that State. This gives him one great ranch of over 25,000 acres, about a quarter of which is covered with vines. The Governor intends to plant, it all with the best wine-producing and raisin grapes. i Marseilles and Paris are now connected by L an underground cable, which has cost about 1 * . million and a half sterling. The cable is ■ laid in a cast-iron pipe 6ft below the surface, ■ and is so arranged that it can, from time to r time, be inspected. • qUe S°“, o£ ‘hjiog op the Zuyder Zee “ being aefavely discussed in Holland. The aoyal Institute of Engineers purposes holding shortly a public meeting of their body at Amsterdam to thoroughly examine the • scheme for carrying out this idea by connecting! 4>y strong dykes all the islands that form its outer fringe, and so permanently excluding ahpniiow from the North Bea. West Australia. prevaku ‘ throughout