FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21253, 5 August 1932, Page 8

FIFTY YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALP PROGRESS OF A CENTURY The following are extracts from New Zealand Herald of August o, 1882 _ The last 100 years have seen in England the most sudden change in n«_ material and external life that is, P haps, recorded in history. It « CU "L, how many things date from 1770 or • The use of steam in manufactures a' locomotion by sea and land, the . ■ revolution, the factory system, mous growth of population, the c from a rural to a town life, the porte • tous growth of the Empire, the expansion of sea power, of commerce, manufactures, of wealth, of inte - munication, of the post; then the us gas, electricity, telegraphs, te * e P. ' steam presses, sewing machines, ai gines, photographs, tunnels, ship and all the rest. , Early in the last century England w one of the lesser kingdoms of Europe, b one-third in size and numbers of J! ran or Germany. London then was on 7 . of a doze.i cities in Europe, hardly 9 the area of Manchester or Leeds, it now the biggest and most, pop^ in recorded history, nearly equal, we P pose, iji size and population to capitals of Europe put together.