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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1514, 7 March 1901, Page 61

The .Tyser line steamer Stax of Australia, due in Wellington in about three weeks* time, carries the largest shipment of American-manufactured goods that has ever left an American port. Her cargo list (says an exchange) covers 120 pages, each 50 per cent, larger than an average foolscap sheet. In this is included every variety of manufactured goods produced in the United States. 'There are 400 tons of sewing machines alone. For Auckland the vessel has brought an entire gas-plant, weighing 500 tons. There are rifles, shotguns. revolvers and ammunition sufficient to supply a brigade, whilst lawn-mowers, reapers, waggons, wheels, coffee-mills, patent medicines, etc., are reckoned by tons. Kerosene to the extent of 80,000 cases and 1500 barrels, 1000 tons of wire. 1200 tons of bar iron, 400 tons of roll-paper; hundreds of pianos and organs, together with an extensive array of miscellaneous articles, are included in the cargo.