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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1309, 14 April 1883, Page 2

Th© New York correspondent of the Argus speaking of the Mace-Slade visit, says;—.“Mr Mace says that having lost sundry thousands which he had gathered in Melbourne in the laborious calling of betting on your horse races, he is seeking release from the tedium of existance by trying to arrange a battle between Mr Slade and Mr Sullivan, of Boston, popularly known as ‘ the Slogger. ’ Mr Sullivan, you may remember, is the Gentleman who professed to be able to ‘ knock out’ any man living in four rounds, but who hammered in vain for that purpose on the rosy countenance of Mr ‘ Tug ’Wilson, of British fame. Mr Slade is said to be a fine specimen of the human brute, with flesh so hardened that he walks with pleasure barefooted over broken glass, and muscles so strong that he emulates the famous achievement of Marshall Saxe, and folds a horse shoe into a turning-fork with one hand.” In the course of five years the Bank of England paid notes amounting to 77,745,000 in number. If these notes were placed in a pile, they would reach to a height of sij miles, or if joined end to end they would extend a distance of 12,445 miles.