A NEW ZEALAND "BULL."
[To TIM EDITOR. OP as " Brisorarea.."] SIR,—It may interest your readers to learn that our popular Governor, with a view, doubtless, of acclimatising the Irish "bull" at the Antipodes, has released at the various centres of population in the Colony several fine specimens of this interesting breed imported direct from the County Tyrone. For instance, on the occasion of a public reception at Napier, the school children of the town, after being duly complimented by his Excellency on the hearty manner in which they had rendered the National Anthem, were solemnly assured that if they put their shoulders to the wheel they would be sure to reach the top of the tree ! Upon which a compatriot turned to me and said: "Sure, it. was an axle-tree he meant, bedad." —1 am, Sir, etc„
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