A COSTLY NEW CATHEDRAL SINKING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1277, 13 January 1883, Page 2

A COSTLY NEW CATHEDRAL SINKING.

iu refer I ing The celebrated Cathedral of°st i Isaac at St. Petersburgh, which was finished in 1859 'at a cost of 25,000,000 i dbllare, is, it'is said, giving indications I: blinking ground. As is j well known,' the Russian capital is con--1 Btructed on a marsh, ' and the \ite of r the cathedral was,Belecteiin oneVthe I softest portions of it. Upon the W--1 dations, at the'outset, 1,000,000 l dollars was speat in driving piles, but at no period has the building mainlined a frigid' attitude, and at, present it manifests a disposition to topple over at one corncv'altogether. A short time ago an examination mealed that at one , side of the structure the columns had ■ ,-pp.rted from the.architrave and left a ; of three 'inches , between, which 1 regularly J this discdVery the Engineers t was taken-as to lightening the roofand" I workmen were* engaged to remove the I corner bronzes) but as ; the work -pro-. I .ceeded fresh, figures 'displaced' tkem- | selves, ■ and ' the' engineers grew go j a^ r ®ed that.they. gave up the, .underi t a ™g as a baa job'. Since then hoth- > has been exceptrtp .hold:f conI saltation after. > consultation,-> with nb, t result but the expenditure of a deal * of* » talk and 'mmbc€ ■, fancy .projects of improvement, more or> ( - less impossible to carry out.. ; ( - i