« BIGGEST IN THE WORLD."

Kumara Times, Issue 2867, 10 December 1885, Page 3

« BIGGEST IN THE WORLD."

Writing in the Sydney Evening News, onNew Zealand. " Maori " has the following remarks :—" En parenthese, let us just for a moment recapitulate, and array together these ' biggest in the world' items, of. which New Zealand is so prond. It is, indeed, a motley catalogue. First, the biggest dredge; then,'the biggesc waterwheel ; next, the biggest trout; the biggest wooden building; the biggest wooden bridge; the biggest calcareous terraces; the higgest bird (if the nioa still lives); the biggest apples—those of the Waikato district; the biggest and most luxurious natural warm baths; the biggest terraced formation ; the biggest glacier (that of Mount Cook—though that is doubtful) ; the biggest ta Mooing on the biggest reclaimed cannibal, with probably the biggest mouth ; tho biggest flax bashes; the steepest railway incline; the biggest beds of shingle: the biggest concrete breakwater; the biggest cabbages—if we accept the cabbage tree as generic; the biggest proportion of rabbits to the acre; the I'iggest artesian water supply (that of Christchurch) ; the biggest beds of water-cress ; the biggest colonial debt; and, as its admirers say, the biggesthearted people, io which my own experiences say Amen ; and the biggest future of any of Britain's colonies, to which, with a Scotchman's proverbial caution, I say, 'Weel, we'll see? ' Nous verrons.' Now then, after this, where are you, Yankee Sam, or Victorian James?"