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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 12, 11 July 1884, Page 7

[Advt]. — We know that there is nothing on earth equal to Hop Bitters as a family medicine. Look for. Mr. K. A. Proctor, writing in the Newcastle Chronicle, says : — I see some discussion has gone on in these columns lately, respecting the Great Pyramid and iU uses. I would recommend those who take an interest in the subject to read " The Pyramids and the Temples of Gizeh," by M. W. Flinders Petrie. The results of careful measurement and observation collected in this volume suffice to establish finally, what had been long thought by the most careful students of the subject, that, while the Great Pyramid shows clearly enough the skill and energy of its builders, and while the mathematical knowledge and acumen of the astronomers of those days il also clearly displayed by this mass of masonry, it is a monument of the folly, selfishness, and superstition of the king who erected it, and for whose body it was intended to be the tomb. Apart from this, the chief point of interest in the pyramid ließ, I think, in the circumstance that, while the squaring of the base is in error by about the fifth of a minute of arc, the orientation is in error by about five minutes, the same error being found alike in the slant entrance passages and in the core of masonry, and being, furthermore, repeated in the second pyramid. This would either mean that, in the six thousand years or so which have elapsed since the two great pyramids were built, the North Pole has shifted about six miles, or at the rate of nearly two yards per annum, or else the region on which the pyramids are built has twisted round through an angle of about one* twelfth of a degree.