WHALES.
Last Wednesday as the Rangitikei Maones were on the beach pipi hunting, they -were surprised and delighted to find two whales stranded . I The locality is near where the Kai koputa stream runs into the sea. One is very la ge measuring near sixty feet, the other is much smaller. The natives are losing no time in reaping their harvest, as they are hard at it, cutting out and trying down Yesterday a few of the townspeople went along the beach to hare a look, bat &4ew tamed b*ck when they lad reached the first stream, believing the statement to have been a hoax. Today many have been away aud realised that the story is correct, and the whales are there.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 272, 7 June 1889, Page 2
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122WHALES. Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 272, 7 June 1889, Page 2
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