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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2331, 26 June 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

A kind of'concrete, hard and now being , used in Paris for building purposes, .It is composed of eight parts of - sand, gravel and pebbles; one part of. powdered cinders,, and- one and a-half parts unslacked hydraulic lime. These materials: are thoroughly beaten up together, their mixture giving a concrete which sets immediately, and becomes in a few days extremely hard and'solid, which property, may bo still further increased: by the addition of a email quantity, say one part, of cement, Among other constructions to which tho niatenal has been applied is a house three atorios fn height, (i 5 x 45 feotj • standing „on a terrace, having a. perpendicular retaining wall 200 feet in' length and 20 feet high. Every part' of this structure was made of the hard concrete, including .foundations, vaults of - cbllars I .' rotainiiig wall, and all walk, exterior and interior, as well' as the corniie ll work,;' 'mouldings, string courses,' balustrades, parapets, and the,building is without band-iron,' or wood throughout.