UNKNOWN

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 361, 9 April 1903, Page 6

UNKNOWN

YalnahlV Df»cr, i>ry '.inde in Southern P»rt of Ar.. :tin. Ucpnbllo— L»rK«T i ;.n tJi-j Dodo. Brief inform; ..' r..- discovery in - i. ~* thi six. .1 •m part of t ,- tj!.. i{ j,-,i c. of part of the - .1 -.; oi bird that. i:t ." ■-. ivr.l* r.tjy of tin forms knowi ... .. .. ..• ..» ..^ arextinct, ! -. the chief OPlitholpgis t ■• . . :;.';::• in•tjtui; ~wV. :.'..:.• .:!.-,MHTy as one of t* . ;. ~ .-tancc. The details . ti.u. . :•, c-.i p.r? to :h, •fleet that :: exploring along thf r;> foothills of ~;:. Ami- ■ ra:;- .. Ti-th-'i from the strata of lis.- .' irv :;.:*«; the skuii oi what they .-;: ■ ...: to t;t :t gigantic bird of i on subsequent e-xaminnti •: r.r'hed othn: part- that to change their first • .cl the conclusion that, tl. . .-:-•: i have been r. water fowl. 1" :/.«• =,f this extinct bird, which vi-rers named ll.t"phora .•;;.;,. ;. according to tiu reports, si an • in.;, it having been at h::-; a'i .orth *ai - r than the, "dodo" of '- ■ tscir. a bird tio>.«. e.ctinct. hut v*: :i :". the finriin;, >i' this Pate.; . : t r held fir ;t place for .-i list of births living and -V The •j»»veri»u«ent ornithologists :.;-.' anxiously awaiting further details of this interesting dlscovery. America!. Chiton Output. The census h-zreau report issued to-day on lh« cotton ginned in the United States shows ihe crop of VA'iO to have been 10.486.148 commercial bales (balea as marketed) equivalent to 10,12?.,0i:7 bales of the 500 pound standard or fo 5,061,513,294 pounds. This is an increase of £40,174 commercial boles, or more than eight per cent, in excess of the 1899 crop. Texas grew 34 per cent, of the entire crop of 1900 and one-fourth of the world's crop of that year. Its crop increased 33 per cent, orer 1899, the 1900 crop heing 3,536,506 commercial bales and the lf>9'j crop 2,658,555. East of the Mississippi production decreased.