Mr Pyke has written to the ** Evening Star suggesting a new name for this colony. "Nm Tirena ' ia the Maori name for New Zealand, and he suggests that our adopted land be called "Tireni" or " Tirenia " in future.
Mr T. B Potter, M.P. in an interview wuh a ' Central New* ' repr^-enta-ive, said :— A feature of the Budget that has interested mo much is the extraordinary rise in the consumption pf rum, Imt I am inclined to regard this phenomenon not quite as the Chancellor of the Exchequer regards it, as the growth of a seaport appetite for that eminently Briiitih but distinctly vulgar kind of alcohol. I believe its increased consumption to be not unconcerned with the resent visitation of influenza. There i 3 an old fashioned idea that rum and honey is a sovereign remedy for a bad cold. If my theory be correct, the epidemic of the winter must have played very largely into the hands of the Chancellor of lhe Exchequer.
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2178, 27 June 1890, Page 3
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