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in Turkey. The concession of a railway from Belgrade to Con- 
stantinople has been under consideration, as well as the construction 
of roads in Roumelia and Anatolia. A Franco-Belgian Company 
is said to be assured of a contract for docks at Constantinople, and 
the concession of the Roumelian Railways has been given to M. 
Van der Elss, of Brussels, who is to construct 450 kilometres of it 
before issuing any shares as bonds. 
In India the past quarter has been conspicuous rather for the 
destruction than the construction of railway works. The great 
viaduct on the Bhore Ghaut suddenly collapsed, owing to imperfect 
construction, and many other bridges on the Great Indian Peninsula, 
and the Bombay, Baroda, and Central Indian Railways have been 
destroyed by the unusually high floods of the past season. Through 
communication between Calcutta and Bombay, vid Jubbulpore and 
Nagpore, has been so far completed that it can now be effected in 
116 hours. The only break of railway is between Jubbulpore and 
Nagpore, which, however, may be travelled by dak gharry in 36 
hours. It was expected that the north-west line of the Madras 
Railway would be opened as far as Gooty, some time last month. 
The works in connection with the construction of a tunnel under 
the River Indus, at Attock, have been ordered to be continued ; 
but it has not yet been determined to continue the railway com- 
munication trom Lahore to Peshawur. The Ceylon Railway was 
opened for goods traffic on 16th September last. 
In Telegraphy we note the successful laying of the new cable 
between Placentia, Newfoundland, and North Sydney, Cape Breton ; 
thus completing a new route from Nova Scotia to the Atlantic Cables, 
by which the Newfoundland land-lines are avoided. The Florida 
and Cuba Cable is at last at work, and it is now proposed to carry 
a line from the northern frontier of Florida to the port of Cherrara, 
situated at some leagues to the west of Havannah; various branch- 
lines are also contemplated. Mr.{W. 'T. Henley, of North Wool- 
wich, has successfully laid the Submarine Telegraph Company’s 
cable from the South Foreland to La Paune, a small fishing-village 
in Belgium, close to the French frontier. The cable is a very 
heavy one, containing four conducting wires. All the principal 
police stations, and the principal station of the Fire Brigade in 
Watling Street, London, have at last been connected with the Chief 
Office in Whitehall by means of the telegraph. 
The new Waterworks at Port Glasgow were opened with some 
ceremony on 15th October last. They consist of a large reservoir 
near the farm-stead of Leperstone, and a large filter and tank at 
the farm at Parkhill. The works are capable of supplying 12,000 
people with 30 gallons of water a head per day. The waterworks 
for the town of Jedburgh are now in an advanced state; the 
reservoir at Blackburn is completed with the exception of the 
