LATE SHIPPING
By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
LONDON, July 17,
Arrived—At London, Port .Dunedin ; at Colon, Ruapehu; at Panama, Ra-
runga. Sailed —From Seattle, ■ West Calera
OYSTERS SING TOO MUCH. NEW YORK, May 21. What a theme for a poet! “The Song of the Oyster !” Off Hatterns, North Carolina they are humming so merrily in this month of May that certain wireless underwater experiments have been ahimdor.od. The delicate mechanism has been put out of gear by the. noise of the bivalves, which resembles a person humming a tunc. 'Phe wireless experimentalists applied to the Bureau of Fisheries for relief, hut that Government office declared that it had no remedy that would make the oysters silent if they wished to sing.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1928, Page 3
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