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Observer, Volume XI, Issue 750, 13 May 1893, Page 16

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W. says the 'Ida' was not chartered to bring np that engagement ring, and the yarn is only envy on the part of thoße boys who can't raise a ring nor a darling of their own to save their lives. ...The sole means by which the unhappy settler can convey goods from Pakiri to civilisation, is by scaling a mountain pass of savagely acute angles, with acclivities on one side thousands of feet straight up towards the zenith, declivities on the other, miles deep plumb with destruction. To attempt the navigation of this pass with ordinary vehicles means death, as half the conveyance would hang on to earth by two wheels while t'other two were reaching out into space, and three legs of the horrified mule with a solid half of its body would be suspended over precipices all the time — almost. Residents clamour for a tunnel or freight balloons, failing which they entertain hopes that a ' liberal ' Government will furnish spondulix for a road that can be negotiated without the use of cranes or windlasses.

On the barren sea-sirt rock, Shipwrecked Maggy gets a shock, Weeps, and tugs her beauty-lock, Wrings her little paws and frock, Waves aloft her snowy smock (Although rude larrikins might mock), Screams for Watty — yells for Jock, Till rescue comes at four o'clock.