Untitled

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8334, 5 June 1905, Page 3

Lord Ellesibere is closing some three hundred old coalpit shafts in Woraley and adjoining , districts near Manchester. Tne output of one modern colliery is equal to that of fifty pits of seventy years ago. "~ A Great Auk's. egg— one of seventytwo believed to be iri existence— real* ise*a 200 guineas in a London saleroom. A stuffed specimen of the. iibw extinct; Great Auk haS been sold in London for 400 guineas, its destination being an American rouseiim. . . ; - „ The restoration of the famous Stadium of Athens, ' began in- 1895 with funds given by a Greek merchant;- has progressed until they, are now replacing the last of the 52,000 marble seats which the great amphitheatre contains. The seats, railings, etc., are all of the creamy white Pentelikon, marble. It is the intention of the committee Jiavihg' the re ; sto*atum in charge to- build a' marble propylflea, or entrance, resembung the ancient one.