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Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 81, 25 September 1878, Page 3

The question of flooding the Sahara .is not apparently to pass into oblivion. There are two chief schemes for effecting this geographical revolution, one of which proposes the creation of an inland Algerian sea with an opening into the Mediterranean, while the other demands the creation of 60,000 square miles of the Sahara into a vast lake with an outlet into the Atlantic. The first scheme has the support of the French Government. The Malay policeman of Batavia are armed with a singular weapon a Switch fork. It is not, strictly speaking, Jt weapon at all, either of offence or defence. It is the policeman's aid. When at night he meets a drunken sailor, noisy and obstinate, the policeman puts the " fork round " Jack's " neck, and makes him walk along. That Jack may move along willingly, the points of the >fork are curved inward. If he tries to escape, or moves his head violently, he tears his neck.. He may advance slowly, but move he. must, and in the way the propelling policeman directsv