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NZ Truth, Issue 72, 3 November 1906, Page 6

Tbe. champion hiean' man has. at last been run' to earth m Duriedin, .all through a churciv collection. On a reeent r Sunday evening .it was discovertd 'that a bright new .farthing had been carefully covered . with silver paper to represent a Sixpence, which it did m a very passable manner, but,' alas ! only 'for a time.

A reporter, <who ascended one of the towers of the Exhibition buildings, described the Alps m the West 'as "barred with dark blue and white, and looking for all the wofctd like a huge sauri;.n monster m a football jersey ambling forth to play wing forward m a pleusaurian or ichthyosaurian team." He ought to be hit with' a fat, foreign sausage.

It is said that nearly lflO Chinamen cultivate vegetables around. Otalri. The ■c"'.'3ptional richness of the soil renders it well adapted for the purposes of this industry. It is stated that m some instances Chinamen pay as much as. £8 per acre per annum for tfte use of their, land. And if some white wanted it for the same .purpose the rent would, no doubt, be doubled.

The Duke of Cumberland, the gent who can't get hold of either the duchy of Brunswick or the throne of Hanover, although he appears to have valid legal claims to both, is;"saidto be the most hideous'. man; in Europe as well as the "we.alth.icst. His' face is deeply marked and of a dirty. color", his eyes' are squint and lustreless, and he strongly resembles a . bull terrier. 1 • ■ ■ : » , •