17 JUNE 1911, Page 2

The Seville correspondent of the Times draws attention to a

barbarous proposal to destroy the magnificent Roman aqueduct. If the Town Council has its way " the pure unfailing stream which has run for some two thousand years through channels made before Christ was horn will henceforth be conveyed through a cast-iron pipe into the fountains which furnish drinking water for the poor, and ripple musically in the patios of the rich, and a row of villas and warehouses will replace the beautiful arcades designed in the time of Julius Cmsar and renovated under the rule of the Almohades more than seven cen- turies ago."