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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18456, 10 August 1925, Page 10

The stream of Indians coming into New Zealand seems to be steadilymaintained, and last week the Mannganui brought 25 men of this race to Auckland from Sydney (says the "Herald"). Eleven of these arrivals were carfied as second saloon passengers and the remaining 14 in the steerage. Amone thn number were several boys, whose command of English was probably not more than enough to enable them to pass the language test, but there were among the men some who had been in New Zealand before, and others who had e.vidently resided in some Enjr-lish-speakinc country, as they had no difficulty in making themselves understood. The Maunganui also had amone her passengers two Italians of the aericultural type and two Chinese.

A delicate piece of mining work is" being carried out in South London At Sydenham Hill, less than a mile from the Crystal Palace, a shaft is beino> sunk 130 ft through the London clav into the mile-long Penge tunnel through which rush Continental trains to from Dover. This shaft, which is 6 ft across, is for carrying down to the tun nel high-tension electric cables in nexion with the electrification 0 f tho suburban system of the Southern Bailway.