FROM THE “STAR” SIXTY YEARS AGO.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19197, 10 October 1930, Page 5

FROM THE “STAR” SIXTY YEARS AGO.

ADVERTISEMENTS AND NEWS OF OCT. 11, 1870. Rakaia Bridge.—Mr White informs us that the work in connection with the construction of the permanent bridge is progressing most satisfactorily. lie expected to complete the third row of piles to-day, if no unforseen accident occurred. The temporary bridge continued firm, notwithstanding the heavy work upon it, and by the time the wool season commences, it will be more fully available for traffic, the pile-driving for which it was erected having been completed. War in Europe.—Three great armies have been overthrown, two rich provinces conquered and absorbed, a military dynasty shivered to atoms, an Epiperor taken into captivity, his wife and chjld fugitives from France, a republic established in Paris, and a splendid army, flushed with an unbroken line of victories, is marching upon the capital of a vanquished country. These astounding incidents have been crowded into a single month; for the first blow was struck at Saarbruck on August 2; and before September 2 the Emperor of the French had been deposed, and had surrendered himself to the King of Prussia, the Empress and the Prince Imperial had taken refuge in Belgium; and the Count Bismarck was accompanying the King of Prussia and the Crown Prince on their march to Paris, where that astute and ambitious statesman hopes to enjoy his coming hour of triumph, after haying outwitted the Emperor Napoleon in diplomacy and defeated him in war.