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French warship of a past era (such a craft as the training steam-frigates which cruised
as far as New Zealand up to ten or fifteen years ago), a full-rigged ship, Garrying the old-
style stu'ns'l-booms, and with adiarp skmn-power as indicated by her two funnels
and her screw.
S0UTHLk"JD.
Soathlsnd, the Y&u of the Maoris-" The Tail of the Land "--the lad of great
oatlields and rich pastnresdplajed its wdth in a good-sized court reached
by way of the Western Avenue, not far horn the southern entrance of the Main Building.
The eye was first attracted by the little porch-like structures, made of the trunlcs of ferntrees,
that stood at the corners of the court. Painted signs conspicuously advertised
the names of the chief centres of industry in Southland, and within the various articles
raised from the soil on which the province depends for its prosperity were well set out.
Here the interested visitor learned maoh concerning the character and capabilities of
N~w Z%land's Far South.
Xore than a million of acres in Southland are under cultivation, and it is the prin-
cipal oat-growing section of the colony. Of other products, it grows wheat of splendid
quality, barley, limed, &c., and its dairies turn out large quantities of the best of cheese
and butter. In the back country, after one passes through the level agricultural plains,
are the great runs of the wool-growers and meat-&rs. Other industries are kc-
milling, timber-growing, gold-dredging coal-mining, deep-sea fishing, and oystering.
The chief town, Inv-, with a population of between twelve and thirteen thousand,
has an excellent, safe, deep-water port at the Bln& seventeen miles away by rail.
The exhibits of agricultural and pastoral products made up the greater part of
the court's contents. Near the centre stood a large arch that typified the great dairyins