Good fire bricks are now manufactured in Auckland.
Mr Reader Wood, in a recent speech to the electors of Auckland, stated that when he was Colonial Treasurer, the Province of Auckland borrowed .£500,000 and they had got for it the Taniaki bridge, a leaky Court House, a halffinished Lunatic Asylum, a gloomy Post Office, and the ruins of a railway.
A Wanganui paper states that a rhubarb leaf 20 feet 9 inches in circumference was found in Mr Thurston's garden a few days ago. Two hours spent in watering a garden just before it is soaked by a thunder shower is a work of super-irrigation.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 935, 4 February 1871, Page 2
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