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New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 495, 6 October 1882, Page 19

Great difficulty is felt in organizing the new Irish Criminal Investigation Department. Ke*pectable Irishmen won't join the force, and Englishmen are useless by their accent alone Ao attempt is being made to get Irish detectives in England to go to Ireland for very high pay if the Treasury will give it. The destruction of centuries is to be repaired. For nearly six hundred years the waters of the Zuyder Zee have rolled over what was once dry land, and ships have sailed where carriages may have travelled. Several of the wealthiest financiers of Holland have now determined upon concentrating their energies in an attempt to reclaim the tract of land which has so long been lost to their country, and they are already engaged in making the surveys for a new set of these 'gigantic piles " which are commemorated in the verses of Andrew Marvell. Dykes which will far outstrip the stupendous works on the island of Walcheren are in contemplation, and they will be built to such a height and of such a thickness as to stand the shock of the fiercest seas that may dash against them. Many years must necesanly pass away before works of this character can be com Dieted, but if they should happily be brought to a successful issue, another engineering wonder will have been added to the triumphs of Dutch enterprise,