SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.
THK CHANNEL TUiSNEL; The Channel Tunnel is making progtced. On the French tide the work has reached a distance of 1,800 metres, while on the Ene. lish side 1,600 metres have been completed. This makes in all 3,400 metres, or consider, ably more than one-tenth of the entire c*" tent of piercing to be accomplished, the tunnel being rather more than 29 kilometre! long, supposing that it ia decided to jb on with the work; and that the needed 39 mil. lions can be railed, the tiinacl might Decoiti. pleted in a few years. The original culcnla". tioa was that it would require two yean to pierce a way of 7 or 9in. diameter from one side of the Channel to the other, a machine being worked from each side, bow that the experiment is proceeding in good ear. nest there seems every reason to think the task might be accomplished within some* thing leas than that period, from the pro. sent date. If so, another four years wonld probably be required to complete the en* tire work and reader it fit for traffic,
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Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 3544, 15 December 1881, Page 2
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