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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1340, 9 August 1883, Page 3

The Auckland “ Herald ” «aya By the s.s. Wairarapa yesterday Detective Hughes was a passenger from Gisborne for Auckland, It will be remembered that he was spirited away the other day by the Rotomahana, while down below on duty of some kind or other just before her departure from the wharf. Captain Carey kindly endeavoured to land the detective at the North Head, in going out, but either the North yhore people did not understand the signal for a boat to come off, or were averse to having a detective thrust upon them, for they made no sign, and there was no help for it but to take the representative of the force to sea. Notwithstanding his perils and nd ventures by land and sea, the gallant officer does not seem to have fallen away in condition since his departure from the city. She tripped daintily down the street, half smiling at the admiring glances cast by the men at her white neck and arms, as they shone through the flimsy meshes of her lace overwaist. Two visitors from the rural districts were transfixed at the lavish and unaccustomed display of feminine loveliness; but one of them recovered sufficiently to remark : *• Well, by gosh, if I had a dress like that I’d weare an under-shirt.”

For heavy weights the Hickey family, of Mason County, 111., make quite a respectable show. The father weighs 4801bs, the mother 286 ; eldest daughter, 407 ; second 275 ; third 260; fourth 177. Mr. Hickey had two sisters, the elder weighing 3101bs, and the younger 270 The average weight of the family is 277 pounds, and all are living.