A wonderful result of gunpowder blasting was witnessed the other day at the Colcerrow Granite Works, situate about one mile from Par station. The granite rock operated upon was of vast dimensions, measuring sGft in length, 55ft in width, and 16ft in height. The hole was bored near the centre of the rock, about 16ft in depth", and charged with about 301b of the " patent safety blasting powder," from. South Down. The result was that the quantity of rock fairly disengaged is of the immense weight of 3520 tons. Scarcely any noise was made by the blast, although the rock was rent in the form of T, from top to bottomland lifted as by a lever from its bed.
The French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres has just placed at the disposal of orientalists all the manuscripts in the Cambodian language sent to France by Rear-Admiral de la Grandiere, governor of Cochin-China,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 1152, 30 August 1865, Page 5
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