SUPERLATIVE NEW ZEALAND.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1467, 13 February 1886, Page 1

SUPERLATIVE NEW ZEALAND.

Writing in the Sydney Evening News on New Zealand, "Maori" says:— En parenthese, let us just for a moment recapitulate, and array together these biggest in the world items, items of which New Zealand is so proud. It is, indeed, 9 motley catalogue. First, the biggest dredge ; then, the biggest water wheel; next, the biggest trout; the biggest wooden building; the biggest wooden bridge ; the biggest calcareous terraces ; tho biggest bird (if the moa still lives); the biggest apples—those of the Waikato district; tlic biggest and most luxurious natural warm bathe ; the biggest terrace formation ; the biggest glacier (friat of Mount (Jook—though that is doubtful) ; the biggest titooing on the biggest reclaimed cannibal, with, probably, the biggest mouth ; the biggest flax bushes ; the tstaepest railway incline ; the biggest beds of shingle; the biggest conorete breakwater; the biggest cabbage tree as generic ; the biggest proportion of rabbits to the acre ; the biggest artesian water supply (that of Christchurch); the biggest bods of watercress; the biggest colonial ill bt; and, as its admirers say, the biggestI.edited people, to which my own experience says, amen; and the biggest fuiure of any of Britain's colonies, to which, with a Scotchman's proverbial caution, I say, " Weel, we'll see 1" Nous venom. Now then, after this; where are you, Yankee Sam, or Victorian James ?