No. IV. — The Survival op the Fittest — " Melting- Moments."
January 21, 1883. (Telegram very mucli " condensed " — in the refrigerator) . Tremendous excitement. Te Whiti has assembled the Maoris, arid is preserving them alive by keeping them continually in the Hot Springs at Eotorua, which, do not rise above their normal temperature. Europeans dying in hundreds every hour; the Maori is the "coming man," and Barnum's fortune is made. The comet is now so near the earth that its tail has dried up the waters of the ocean. Our ice supply is thus cut off, and the heat grows daily more intense. Three " comps." dropped at their frames yesterday, and the type is now beginning to melt. This was predicted long ago by Tennyson in his "In 1 Memoriam " : — So careful of the type ; but no— From scarped " bulk" and quarried *•' stone" She shrieks — *' A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing — all shall go I" ' Even so j we are " going, going !" There are
only 212 people left in Auckland ; and Professor Denton wires from Melbourne that after seeing the last man die there, he is about starting by balloon for the South Pole. Our next issue will appear in lithograph, as none of the, printers survive but the " devil."
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Observer, Volume 5, Issue 116, 2 December 1882, Page 184
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