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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3041, 27 December 1882, Page 3

Who (writes the “ Federal Australian ”) says federation is not advancing at railroad spued in this part of the world ? Already Victoria and New South Wales—or say Melbourne and Sydney—are bound together by geographical unity by the unbreakable iron link, and now the fiat has gone forth on both sides for the similar union of Victoria and South A.is rali i, or say Mel bourne and Adelaide. Within a week the Parliaments of ihetwo colonies have given their sanction each to its own share of the grand undertaking. About 190 miles in all will require to be laid down at a cost, they say, of about a million sterling, and this truly iniernational work will be completed within Ihe next 18 months, A through line of 600 miles will then convey the traveller fiom the shores of Hobson’s Bty to t ie shores of S’. Vincent's Gulf without a break. Is U"t tins federation, aye, and confederation into the bargain ? An obscure religious paper of England, culled the “ Protestant Stundurd,” tukos a view of the recent Egyptian war that is at le-st novel and startling. It is, in brief, that England, in carrying on the war, was unconsciously fulfilling a prophecy of the Now Testament, and that it is the prelude to the “end of this dispensation, and the beginning of that which followeth.” The year 1882 is therefore to bo the “ pyramidal year of prophecy.” The English people are the ten lost tribes of Israel, and as such are to be the agent in accomplishing the prophecies in the Book of Bevclation, Turkey is Edom, and is about to perish by the “ drying up of its Euphrates.” Egypt is Esau, and is about to fall into the hands of “ British Israel,” after which the Jews are to go back to Palestine. This is the programme up to date. It is defective, however, in not