Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . A PARADE OK COMMISSIONAIRES : THE ROLL. iS4. \\U1;K1.\C, 1\ TRENCHES (OXFORD STKEKT). LONDON IP. By GEO R. SIMS. LONDON is always more or less up, butJ sometimes it is so much up that itresembles, so far as its roadways areconcerned, a new city in course of makinL,^rather than an old one in the course of New Zealander has of late yearslived in comparative retirement. But heoccasionally peeps round the corner in onesmental vision when one takes ones walksabroad,and sees th
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . A PARADE OK COMMISSIONAIRES : THE ROLL. iS4. \\U1;K1.\C, 1\ TRENCHES (OXFORD STKEKT). LONDON IP. By GEO R. SIMS. LONDON is always more or less up, butJ sometimes it is so much up that itresembles, so far as its roadways areconcerned, a new city in course of makinL,^rather than an old one in the course of New Zealander has of late yearslived in comparative retirement. But heoccasionally peeps round the corner in onesmental vision when one takes ones walksabroad,and sees thorough-fare after thoroughfarebeing excavated b} anarmy of labourers, withstones, wood blocks, drainpipes, poles, barrows,huts, rollers, pickaxes,spades, bricks, sacks, andcement lying about in alldirections in unpictur-esque confusion. TheNew Zealander was medi-tative over the ruins ofLondon Bridge. If hecame in these years ofgrace he would be ableto meditate on a verynear approach to ruin inevery part of the Metro- polis. The buildings stand, but the road-ways that lie before them are constantlybroken up. There are some districts even in the h
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