A BALL AR AT CRAZE.
The statue fever in Ballara.* is still raginffj and the latest accounts slioav it is spreading. Four thousand pounds havQ been raised towards the fifteen hundred required to erect a monument to Tom Moore. Steps are also being taken to have figures of the Queen* Shakespeare, and Captain Cook erected in Bfcurtstreet, in a direct liiwv with Bnrns's statue. The Welsh people ax>6 now seized with this statua-erecting contagion, and are going to haA r e the memory of one of their bards in stone» while it is currently reported that the Germans, not to be behindhand, Avill erect a statue to either Goothf) in* Schiller, Possibly, in the future, Wilaittl will be known as the "City of Statues' 1 as well aa the "City ot Quavfcz."
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 202, 7 May 1887, Page 8
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132A BALLARAT CRAZE. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 202, 7 May 1887, Page 8
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