BARON HAUSSMANN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2153, 22 January 1891, Page 4

BARON HAUSSMANN.

The great magician who raised up a new Pans during the third Empire, is dead, Baron Haussmann was born in Paris in 1809, was educated at the Conservatoire de Musique, but subsequently studied with a notary, and became an advocate. In 1853 he was appointed Preffit of the (Seine by Louis Napoleon, then President, and it was then that his constructive genius and administrative ability had their fiill swing. Public works on the most imposing scale were initiated and Paris as we have said,was practically rebuilt. More than twenty new boulevards, various public gardens, squares, barracks, the Halles Centrales, Prefectures of Police, more than a dozen bridges, museums, hospitals, and asylums, and many other public works were constructed as if by enchantment. All this, of course, necessitated the spending of an enormous amount of money, and M. Haussmann got into serious trouble with both the corps L»gislatif, and the Press for outrunning the constable. Eventually he requested the Emperor to place the budget of the city under, the control of the corps Legislatif, and this was done. When the Ollivier Ministry came into power in 1870 the services of M. Hausmann were dispensed with by an Imperial decree, and on tbe fall of the empire he was among those who deemed it prudent to retire from France for a time. He was soon back again, however, and was appointed director of the Credit Mbbilier, and in 1877 was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the arrondissement of Ajaccio in Corsica, defeating Prince Napoleon, who was also a candidate.—Press.

Bey. C. H. Spurgeon, the eminent English divine, recently remarked that as soon a man loses his religion he wants to know who Cain's wife was.