A SELL FOR THE SCIENTIST.
The Wellington Press has been formed t-j a Wairarapa gentleman that tho following is the manner m whioh a sample of the mud deposit at Rotorua was secured by an Ammc?.n sctewiat : A ha f caste learning that the Waiarsp* man wai on hia way to Napier, besought him to take the parcel to it» destination, "Ohno 1" aaid tha othwr, '' couldn't think of that, t-ut I'll tell y^u what, I'll taVe the empty box >f you like and fill it with earth when we get nf ar Napier, and Jonathan won't be a whit the wiser." Th« half-oaMe nppn'cia ed the proposal, emptied th» b i, and 20 miks from Napier it wmb r -filled with soil and ta»en to its de«Uuii tion. The bf>x, we may state is novp on i*s road accompanying the soientisb to San Francisco.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1476, 7 February 1887, Page 3
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145A SELL FOR THE SCIENTIST. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1476, 7 February 1887, Page 3
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