THE CHANNEL TUNNEL.
The work of removing the machinery from the Abbot's Cliff, heading to the shaft of Shakespere's Cliff in connection with the ChannelTuunelexperiments, is now complete, having occupied upwards of two months, and boring operations will probably be commenced again immediately. The schemc is now in the hands of the South Eastern Railway Company, who, we understand, have entered into a contract for the drilling to be extended another mile. For the present the boring will be continued in the direction of Dover. Several workshops and sheds have been erected at the mouth of the shaft, and a powerful engine has beeen fitted up for compressing the air with which to work the machinery and for ventilating purposes. The arrangements are now much more complete than formerly, and are calculated greatly to expedite the work. The cuttings from the face of the chalk arc carried to the rear of the engine by "cups,]' and afterwards conveyed in an iron "skifl" from the engine to the mouth of the shaft by means of pulleys attached to a chain which is worked by machinery.
Opium-smoking is found to bo very beneficial in China, in cases of blood-spitting from the lungs,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 6273, 24 December 1881, Page 7
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200THE CHANNEL TUNNEL. New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 6273, 24 December 1881, Page 7
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