Notes and Events.
Last week there was on vlow on iht wharf v, spumes at the tLpbfciK fi-h, and crowds of people inspected it. with ..evident interest; says the Times, the fish was caught by one j of the engineers of the steamer l)ukp of Sutherland, who was fi*hin£ from the side of the vewel, which w« ly j in the stream. He was hauling in his line, when Vy peme rowans tho fish became en'angled in it. The book, however, caught in the fi-h's back, and he was enabled to Jand it. The fish is to be sent to the Museum.
The elephant fish is " very much like a whale " except ss to size. The correct name is Callorhynchus antarticus, and is so called on account of its prolongation of the snopt, which has a peculiar proboscis-like appendage, serving as a prehensile organ, in plainer language its nose is formed in the shape of a hook by means of which it could place itself on a rail and hang itself out to dry, but, of course, it does not. It is an inhabitant of the southern Pacific and the vicinity ot the Cape of Good Hope, [ and it is sometimes eaten.
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Manawatu Herald, 11 February 1896, Page 3
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202Notes and Events. Manawatu Herald, 11 February 1896, Page 3
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