HARD TO BELIEVE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2199, 20 January 1886, Page 2

HARD TO BELIEVE.

An amusing anecdote is told by a southern squatter, illustrative of the ignorance of English people on colonial matters, The squatter was travelling by train in England, and in the same carriage with him was an English farmer, At one ot tho stations they were delayed somo littlo time, and drawn up alongside of them was a train carrying some sheep. The New Zealandor made a remark about the sheep, which interested his companion, and after somo little conversation, the Englishman said, "You seem to know something , about sheep." " Yes," said the squatter, "I live in New Zealand and keep sheep." Some conversation then ensued on the subject of breeds, and finally the Englishman asked, "Do you keep many?" "Well," said the other, "that depends upon what you understand by the term ' many.'On being asked again the number he owned, he said'he 'couldn't say, of course, to a hundred or two, but he should think Bomewhere about 30,000." The Englishman looked at him, apparently wondering whether he was in earnest, then muttering something about 30,000 lies, and sinking back in his seat declined to have any further conversation with a man who he .evidently thought must be looked upon with gravo suspicion. Waimato Times, .