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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 261, 16 February 1889, Page 2

The cattle shipped from Taranaki to Sydney averaged £lO per head 1 That ought to do 1 I suppose you can pick ’em up in Taranaki at £3? That ought to leave a good margin I So it does 1 If the Taranaki people only knew it, they can do a big trade with Sydney 1 They’ll never do a big trade with any place I They're too darned lazy, and too demoralized with public money I Besides, they’ve let tbe gorse grow all over the land ! I'm told there are ten acres of gorse to one ot grass, and the gorse is gaining on the grass at the rate of knots 1 We can't afford tq throw stones or put oh frills! I never saw anything like the way the gorse is spreading all round Wellington 1 Anybody would think the land is'n't worth anything at all I Well,, it is’n't worth much, but I quite agree with you that it's scandalous to see it abandons! to gorse after ths place bean settled 20 years I Something rotten, dear boy I —Puff. It is stated in the London Times that when M. de Lesseps launched ths Panama Canal scheme he had never seen the Isthmus. The original cost was estimated at 1,200,000,030 francs, but the Company has already spent 1,400,003.030 francs, and admittedly requires 375,000,000 more. M. Eiffel, of Eiffel Tower fame, is one of th* contractors at Panama. He s ivs that if th* works were suddenly stopped the 15,000 half aavag* navvies amp oyed would make a riot and pillage and destroy everything. He thinks that if there ia no deUy th work* might be finished in the beginning qf 1891 >