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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 515, 7 October 1867, Page 2

Eaiiboads and Modern Warfare.— The wonderful part which railroads play in modern warefare was first manifest in the Crimean campaign, though it was the subsequent Italian war which brought out the fact in La astonishing significance. The Danish hostilities reiterated the lesson for Europe, and the Prussian war of 1866 crowned the commentary. Yet it is in America, after all that steam transportation, both by land and sea, has won its greatest triumphs. The recently published report of Gen. Parsons, the chief of rail and river transportation, exposes a marvel of achievement in his department during the war. Take, for example, the transfer of the. Twenty third Army Corps, in January, 1865, from Eastport, Mississippi, to Washington. Twenty thousand men, with all the corps’ artillery and over a thousand animals, were carried by rail ftnd river from the Tcnnesee to the Potomac, a distance of nearly 1,4‘t0 miles, in the dead of winter, over rivers and mountains blocked with snow and ice, m an average time of eleven days being occupied both by advance and rear-guard—and all without the loss of life or property. Such a feat is probably unexampled in history, and it illustrates the enormous influence hereafter to be exerted by the questi m of transportation in war. This is but one of a numerous series of triumphs recorded in the document just uUcted*~—Danama Star & Herald, Bad News.—Under the above tin complirarn ary heading the Me.rlborough Express says;—‘‘An fi-arjnstjcn of can ptdates, sevtn in number, foe admission to the practice of the law in New Zealand, tpoh place recently at ibe Supreme Court*