THE WILTSHIRE
[nv tbi.eu.rai‘l1 —ni.it nncss association] NO SNAKE ABOARD.
AUCKLAND, June 7 Any fears regarding the harmful nature of the snake supposed to have coma from the Wiltshire are dispelled by the museum curator (Mr Cheese- | Hum), who, on examination, identified : if as a water or sea snake, belonging to tiie common tropical Polynesian j species “hydrus platurus.” This Blink-* | although, found on the bench among j the debris from the wreck, had obvious- ] ly not come from the Wiltshire, as rro.ii , it very nature, it could not live on 1 shipboard, or dry land. Specimens of ; tiii.s Miecie.s were occasionally discovered on the New Zealand coast; he Lou,d . remember about twenty such as tiiibring found. T’: • make found at t-lic Great Barrier is about 14 inches long.
ALLEGED PILLAGERS ARRESTED The customs officers engaged in coi |,.cling the dutiable . goods washed ashore, found the crews ol two launches said to le fishing boats, alongside the wreck- at midnight. The men are said to have been ill possession of certain properly that came out 'of the Wiltshire. As a result four men were sirr sled, anil the launches were detained.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19220608.2.29
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 8 June 1922, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
191THE WILTSHIRE Hokitika Guardian, 8 June 1922, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in