On London Bridge.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 35, 12 January 1885, Page 4

On London Bridge.

Thp-sun. fa,irly up, who shall des- ; cribe the scene which immediately cnsdes upon a lionfloii bridge? The rattling and rumbling and thundering of teams light and heavy, grows m volume and eaf -splitting din \wth .every moment that passes. Two currents of streaming ; linmariity> equally divided by the road-way, and occupying the two sides of the bridge, p.our. unceasingly t over its surifa'ce'and r empty constantly ''into* tlie; great's'daVwh'lclr is- never 'fnll beyond. As the hour for openingbusiness and working operations ap^roftehes* tfaatej? and more . : noisily the stream, until the; itorretits rush o% /(remorselessly, , (unheeding, overwhelminglyt, : Counter .currents are like special trains- upon., a railroad — they have /no right; of, way, anid must present , \ho „- abfitaolep ; to the regular, customary; iinoviemenlsi Loiterers and intruders! land.dnterr lopers are of small account: and hatve few respected rights^! .A>;block he|re and now, from and- cause, over sit foot of space j would. liriStantly injfluene'e 1 the conduct oiP thoUsfends of people 'm 'the vicinity. Long continued, it would result m something like a panic . but it seldom /o6cuW oWis<all#wed -^to^tSfoT pll6e/ Henceforth, unjjl "long after the sun's setting^ thereVilT Ibfe'noCessation, o^ the, surging of the. human, tilde, — /Correspondent" of 1 Boito'n Herald.' s ' : - ■>^^-!'. .:. =l--- !?i-., t