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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume III, Issue 249, 24 June 1881, Page 3

Professor Erasmus Wilson, at one of his lectures, exhibited the photograph of a woman 3S years old, and sft sin high, whose tresses, when she stood erect, enveloped her entire form in a golden veil and trailed several Inches on the ground. The longest fibres measured 6fo 3iin. Thirty inches is considered the mean length of the hair of of women, and 3ft is considered a very remarkable length. This instance is exxeeded, however, by two American women —one whose hair measures 7ft 6:n, and another, the wife of a druggist in Philadelphia, whose luxuriant hair is almost as long, and so long that when seated upon a chair she can completely cover herself with it. The Maoris resident at the Manawalu Ferry on the main trunk road between Wellington and Napier have had a dispute with the Wairarapa County Council, and have pulled down the ferryman’s house as an intimation that they mean to asserttheir rights. At one time the Maoris were the ferrymen, but these sable Charons were so prone to levy blackmail that the County had to appoint a European to the office. This the natives resented as interfering with a profitable business and the destructionof ferryman’s habitation is an outcome of their deliberations and may be taken by [him as a fair hint that his presence is undesirable. The untutored savage has yet to learn that