"Timaru Herald (New Zealand).

Rhodes met us Timaru.

Great was the shock to the public mind when in March, 1855, a certain Mackenzie, a riever by inheritance doubtless, "lifted" a thousand sheep in a night from the run of a Mr. Rhodes near Timaru, in South Canterbury, and disappeared with them among the Southern Alps.

In Canterbury you would be stared at if you called Timaru anything but "Timmeroo."