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Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 736, 8 May 1894, Page 5

Heavy rain fell in Nelson last Thursday—the first of any consequence for 47 days. The largest wine growing district in Germany is Alsace - Lorraine. (No wonder that France is anxious to regain the lost territory. Ed. J£.S.) Says Truth, ‘Agricultural science ought to be taught in our country schools. Many of the children know Euclid better than how to grow a potato.’ Perhaps so! But the majority don’t know either. It is now probable that the national monument to Bismarck, for which about £60,000 has already been collected, will be erected somewhere near the new Imperial House of Parliament on the Konigsplatz, where, also, stands the Victory column commemorating the three campaigns which made Germany one. But, much to the regret of the committee, the statue will not be allowed to take an equestrian shape, such a form of monumental honour in Berlin being only granted to royalty. A Berlin wit once remarked that the Prussian idea of heaven was for a mao to be on back ordering about a less fortuuate fellow creature on foot.