SOMES ISLAND INVADED

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2275, 8 October 1914, Page 3

SOMES ISLAND INVADED

NGAHAURANGA BULLOCK'S LONG SWIM. One would imagine that the hundred odd Germans who are compelled to make Somes Island their home for the time being were immune.from invasion, yet yesterday the email Teuton populace was set in a ferment of excitement by an untoward invasion of their island prison. The- invasion was not made by an armed force of men, however, but ' simply by a solitary bullock of Hereford breed. The intruder was armed, however, with two formidable horns. Hβ had swum the harbour from Ngahauranga, presumably to escape the butcher's knife, and bad sought refuge at the island. The German populace gathered at a tactful distance from the animal, as,, dripping with water and almost exhausted from its long swim, it stood on the beach. Then some of the watchers endeavoured to "shoo" the animal to a more hospitablo spot. Several of the bolder spirits approached tho bullock, which quickly retreated again into tho harbour. Again and again the atfempt was repeated, but the animal, unnerved by its immersion, each timo retreated. The bullock, wet, miserable, and exhausted, was still shivering on the beach when' night fell.