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Evening Star, Issue 3569, 31 July 1874, Page 3

An Ohis woman riding on the cars with her hoy said he was six, and when Billy spoke up and declared he was ten, the good woman drew him over her knee and had satisfaction for the half-fare she was obliged to pay. Professor Kneeland, of the Boston Society of Is atural History, gives expression to the opinion that the much-talked-of and much-ridiculed sea serpent is a veritable being, and not a myth. He holds that it is not an ophidian at all, but a saurian ‘‘ a late survivor of the gigantic preadamite lizards,” lagging superfluous on the stage of zoological existence. He gives no direct proofs, but holds that his theory covers all the apparently conflicting facts that we have.

Late Advertisements. O TAGO RAILWAYS. TIME-TABLE F.QR AUGUST, 1874. Passenger end Goods Trains will leave Dunedin and Port Chalmers respectively, calling at intermediate Stations, as under ir— Dunedin Do Do Do Do Dunedin Do Do Dunedin Do Do NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. DRAINAGE CONTRACT. TENDERS are invited by the Colonial Government for Drainage of Dunedin Railway Station Yard. Drawing and specification may be seen at this Office, where Tenders will be received up till noon on Thursday, the 6th August, 1874. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. By command. W. N. BLAIR, District Engineer. Public Works Office, Dunedin, July 31st, 1874. ELECTION—HIGH WARD. MR BARNARD ISAAC will Address the Electors This Evening (Friday), July 31, 1874, at Bight o’clock, at THE MASONIC HALI* • D. KBIR, Secretary, SPECIAL GOSPEL SERVICE. A N Evangelistic Meeting will be held, ia XA. Farley s Hall, Princes street, on Lord 8 Day Evening next (August 2), at 6.30 p.m,, when several addresses will be delivered. All are invited to attend. FOR SALE, two quiet Dairy Cows, at the calving. Apply to R. /Raynbird, N.B. Harbor, Peninsula . ... ■ ■ ’