A resident in Waimarama, Hawke's Bay, has been introduced to a new sensation. Outstretched on the sands, near to the Waimararua stream, he came across a monster cephalopod, or cuttle-fish, which had evidently been thrown up by the previous tide. The monster measured 10ft sin in length, and the circumference of the body was 6ft, tapering towards the head and tail. Attached to the head were eight long arms, or tentacles, the inner surface of which had double rows of ivory-like cups or suckers, about an inch in diameter. Six of these tentacula were five feet long, and as thick as a man's leg ; the other two were longer, and about half the girth. Between the arms, in the centre of the head, was a hard beak, resembling a tortoise-shell, and in shape like a hawk's bill.
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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 738, 11 October 1870, Page 2
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