A REMARKABLE BRIDGE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10560, 6 January 1896, Page 3

A REMARKABLE BRIDGE.

Some " considerable distance " south of Auck- j land and "quite a large number" of miles | north of Wellington ttands a brid»e, It is [ entitled to be called a remarkable bridge. It j : is ou the direct road to, and only a short dis- : tance from, Ni/ov:hereinpatilcura. When it was discovered by a party of Natives the leader of ; the party exclaimed, " Horemiks'raiki I " And, after many yeats, it is still called by the Natives " Watapiti." I And so ifc is a pity I No doubt a reason was ! given for its cons! ruction afc the time, and thei men who were instrumental ih devoting public i moup.y to such works would look well gibbeted I in chains on the same bridge, the only drawback being; tbat no one would see them. The same amount of money, nay, half thafc ' sum, invested iv Vanity F.«r Cigarettes would bring happiness and enjoyment to our adult j male population. — A graphic idea of the immense siz« of Siberia may bo gleaned from the following comparisons :—All of the skates, kingdoms, principalities, empires, &c., of Europe (except Russia), and all of the United States, including Alaska, could be placed side'by side in Siberia, and yet but littlo more than cover thut immeniie country.