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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 12, 24 September 1874, Page 4

A gentleman of a scientifi j and ethnological turn of mind (says the ♦ Timaru. Herald') was recently making some excavations in his garden at Timaru, when he came upon some bones, apparently of gigantic birds, i< not of human beings They bore the marks of fire, and near them lay embedded in clay some fragments of the rudest earthenware, and what seemed to resembled a weapon of wood. The philosopher's heart was heavy, and he bowed himself in dtep humiliation when he thought of the ?avage . race_ ot heathen fellow creatures, with no aspiration beyond food or the chase, wbose < habits ht fancied shes 1 remains might sigt.ify. Ba» when, a little farther on, he dropp. d across a square gin bottle aud a mutilated linavt of Clubs, his soul was strengthened, and he raised himself haughtily to his full height i for he knew he was among thje relics of a. .civilised ,and Chrietian people J >