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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 5390, 9 January 1886, Page 4

Writing in the Sydney Evening Ncios, on New Zealand. " Maori" has the following remarks: — " En parenthese, let us just for a moment recapitulate, and array together these 'biggest in the world' items, of which New Zealand is so proud. It is, indeed, a motley catalouge. First, the biggest dredge ; then, the biggest waterwheel ; next, the biggest tront; the biggest wooden building ; the biggest wooden bridge ; the biggest calcareous terraces ; the biggest bird (if the moa still lives) ; the biggest apples — those of the Waikato district ; the biggest and most luxurious natural warm baths ; the biggest terraced formation ; the biggest glacier of Mount Cookthough that is doubtful); the biggest tattooing oa the biggest reclaimed cannibal, with probably the biggest mouth ; the biggest flax bushes ; the steepest railway incline ; the biggest beds of shingle ; the biggest concrete breakwater ; the biggest cabbage tree as - generic ; the biggest proportion of rabbits to the acre ; the biggest artesian water supply (that of Christchurch); the biggest beds of watercress; the biggest colonial debt ; and, as its admirers say, the biggest hearted people, to which my own experiences say, Amen ; and the biggest future of any of Britian's colonies, to which, with a Scotchman's proverbial caution, I say, ,Weel, we'll see?' 'Nous verrons.' Now then, after this, where are' you, Yankee Sam, or Victorian James."

In the course of his evidence in a County Court, a roundabout proprietor enumerated his profits on gala-days as fpllows : — Cocoanut business, £10; swings, £10 ; phooting-gallery, about £5 ; throwing at dolls for cigars, £3 ; dropping rings over walking-sticks on boards, £3 ; pull-ing-boards for vases, £5 ; and with his roundabout £70 was often made — a total of about £100.