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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 151, 20 March 1908, Page 4

Those English portraits, painted by the greatest of English painters, jiow on view in Berlin are nothing short of fascinating. Those men are men of action, and have handsome energetic, and clever features; these girls aro charming with their expressive eyes° and those noble ladies surrounded by their delightful children aro not only' beautiful women but loviijg mothers.—"Berliner Tageblatt," Berlin. ■

The lowest tenderer for getting tip to tho semaphore,station at Manukau Heads, near Auckland, a new yardann for tho signal mast was a Maori.. As tho height of tho hill is nearly 900 ft. and tho track in many places near tho perpendicular, it was a problem to Europeans how a Maori, without tacklo would got up a fino pieco of kauri, 54ft, long and about 2ft. through, weighing about a ton. Hut tho Maori triumphed. Ho arrived on tho boach at tho head of about twenty-five burly. Natives, who had como to see, and was followed by a diniinutivo sledge. Tho sledge, liowovor, says tho writer in the "Now Zealand Herald,'" was not for the spar. It took up a cask of beer and tlio Natives were .informed that there was open house when tho yardarm arrived at the semaphore station. Forthwith'they cut llax and twisted it into ropes, and in a short time the spar was oh its way up in the hands of about'twenty-fivo Natives, who each lifted something less, than a hundredweight. It was up in an astonishingly short tiiuo, and tho bearers drank the beer, while tho tenderer made money, on a tender that would have meant heavy loss to a European.