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-- PaulKlemick - 10 Aug 2007

A German soldier who fought in the late Franco-Prussian war, is now at work with Messrs Brogden and Sons, at ballasting operations on the Clutha line. As we observed this powerful fellow smartly wielding his pick and shovel in the ballasting pit at Stoney Creek, we could not help thinking how fine a counterpart illustrative of peace, the painter of to-day might form, to a picture of one of the battlefields of the late war, by a view of this veteran of war, engaged with 30 or 40 other labourers, in this distant Britain of the South, in extending the peaceful march of civilisation, by aiding in the construction of our railway works. Are there no future great artists among our colonial youths, who could work up the idea on canvass in a way similar to the great English Painter, which would doubtless prove the best immigration agent we could employ in securing an increase of population from Europe in these threatening times. “Bruce Herald”, 16th March 1875.