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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9108, 17 July 1888, Page 5

The Melbourne correspondent of the Dunedin Herald, who is well acquainted with New Zealand, says :—" The only part of New Zealand that suggests Tasmania is Stewart Island, and Stewart Island has only 300 inhabitants, though it has been settled 30 years. If Tasmania had a clear and open country like that of the South Island of New Zealand, she would have a population three or four times as numerous as the present one. To give an idea of the difficulties in the way of farming in Tasmania, a gentleman who should know informed me that the expense of clearing an acre of ground there, for grass only, was £4, and for completely clearing for crops £18 per acre. Think of this, ye New Zealand farmers, who have only to plough the tussock, and put in crops right away, and then ask yourselves what on earth is the matter "with your colony."

An Oamaru paper reports an extensive stubble fire near the Otekaike run. It started from a fire where rabbit poisoners were boiling their billies, and it travelled four miles before it was extinguished by a heavy shower of rain. Some buildings had a narrow escape.

The Maoris are committing great havoc among the pigeons in the Kiwitea and Harbour Board blocks. They collected upwards of a thousand in one week.

If you should happen to meet a Welldressed Gentleman, you may depend upon it he patronises A. Woollams and Co., the Tailors, of Sydenham House, Grey-street.