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Temuka Leader, Issue 321, 25 November 1880, Page 2

According to a notice in tbc Berlin National Zeitung, Dr Martin Luther’s pwn copy of the Vulgate, from which h<; translated the Bible into German, while living at.Funker Forg, on the Wartbnrg (1521-22), has been discovered, The director of a watering-gl/tce in Bohemia, Dr Schlechta -Ritter von Sedmibersky. is said to be jn the possession of the-precious-volurae, for which so many Lntlyttah'SC lolars.have made tie most diligent search. ' The margins ot the single leaves of" the La'tin yxAnme are covered with,a great .infetiv corrections, conjectures, glossof/ &c., made by Luther, and written in his own hand. A Bohemian paper states that thi-> interesting book was formerly possessed by the Royal Saxon Library, from which it prssed a-lcng time ago into the hands of the poet/. ifaniz Ktiyezdj. Front the latter :Dr Schlechta ,r. o.e’.ved the. valuable “ -H-indd-ompler,-’ as.a present. There is - a rumour h-Ahat--, Profess- r Cnrtuis, of tho : Uidversityi df Leipzig, lias offered Dr Sch -mm -of 15,000 marks for the hook, but wheiiu-r ;the,y)ffer has we do not know. " * ’ ‘ Accorping to Lieutenant Fro it tier the-tbpogdapher. of-OeUpt party, their journey.’ through Chinajl Thibet, and Centra! Asia*was by n| moans fruitless, * During r their jourl ney 01 . about 15 months to tb| time of their arrival at Bhamo, rdonß the eastern border of the elevated pl»bwß '.of As in -t hey-not onlyjm tyle themselvcfl acquainted with the .the popu.ous'-valleys but also hith arid steppes an i sands of the Gobi, and, conclusion-of tIH arduous “enterprise, with the snow-clad momitain. masses which stituto ■■the eastern frontier of Lieutenant Kreitner executed a route-survey, during tne whole of march, and this alone should great~v«lue ; he also measured heights of numerous points determined their geographical while Mr. Loczy,* the geologist, special attention to the geological ‘formation of the country well as the profiles of the various tain" chains; Mr George Aickin, 0.E., of land, has come to the front a^^B inventor of a new style of trirc^ On this plan bridges can be made 5o feet span to 500, and may for horses and cattle. ,as well uassengers. Tlie Auckland Heral that the materials of constructio^^M exceed most inaccessible can be dealt wit. adds “ For crossing wide and rivers, when not be to introduce, fliers, they.. will be invaluable j' -also as 1 forming municatjpn* with .the thb'Reads of where seep. water $. h long from the shore uqthiuggan excel When sheli ; valuable means of be provided; human life should jeopardised- by omitting to erect all dangerous-fords.sod crossing tlie cOsLoeingfbut: 10s per foot with} under ordinary about Lso for abutments. . An immense diamond, wei carats, has been found in In its uncut condition; if the given correctly, it is. larger famous Ffcoh-Lnoor, or *• Light,” belonging to her