The tallest lighthouse ' on the British coasts is the Skerryvore, off Argyllshire. It is HO feet high.' contains i3OB tons of masonry, and cost -E50.268. A- train which left Bolivar, in South America, for a neighborinc town three rears ago has just arrived. The distance covered was 120 kilometres, and the reason for the delay was a storm which derailed the train, killed most of the passengers, and ripped up such a goodly portion of the railwny-line that the company owning it mas forced into bankruptcy. About six months ago an American engineer undertook tha reconstruction of the road, and ’brought the longdelayed train to the point for which it originally started.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8190, 3 August 1912, Page 10
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