A STRANGE ANIMAL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 58, 6 February 1877, Page 3

A STRANGE ANIMAL.

A remarkable amphibly animal—probably a veritable bunyip—is said by the Queanbeyan Age to have been seen in the Molonglo River, near the Queanbeyan Junction. The river was in half-flood, and Frederick Hincksman, John M'Pherson Luke Colverwell, and James Curley were about to cross. Hincksman entered first, followed by the other, M'Pherson bringing up the rear. Where they entered the stream was about knee-deep, and Hincksman's horse shied at what he supposed was a rock, but as soon as be passed on the object proceeded up the river, following in the trail of the horsemen by a kind of diving undulating motion, frequently coming to the surface and again disappearing. After landing on the other side the party pelted the animal with stones for a distance of fifty yards, when getting into the deep water it finally disappeared. None of the pait seem to be able to give a minute description of the creature; but M'Pherson, who had the best opportunity of viewing' it, says its face resembled that of a child, and that it swam with extending arms or long fins. It was whitish in color, and the size of a Newfoundland dog. That some unknown animal has its abode in our rivers thereabouts, there can no longer be any doubt, as several persons from time to time have caught a glimpse of it.