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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 156, 17 February 1903, Page 4

A stallion was taken recently by an alligator near Alligator Point, Queensland. The horse was evidently crossing from one small island to another when seized. The remains were found a few days later in the river, gseatly mangled and torn.

peculiar sight (says the Lyttelton Times) was seen by several people in Colombo Street a few minutes before 6 o'clock one evening last week. A large dog jumped from one of the second-storey windows in Morten's Buildings, and, crashing head first through the glass verandah, fell heavily on the pavement. The onlookers were rather surprised to see the dog trot quietly across the street, and from the opposite kerbstone gaze pensively upon the window through which he had just made his hasty exit. If Mr Harry de Windt's scheme to tunnel Behring Sea—2B fathoms deep and 36 miles wide at the narrowest point—is carried out, there will be a land track right round the earth, with the exception of that tract, which is rendered unbridgable by the great width both north and south of the Atlantic Ocean. To go by land from Cape Finisterre to Russia, via the trans-Si-berian Railway and its extension to Behring Sea and the Yukon, thence to New York, seems to be well within the range of possibility, and will really make the three continents one. When it is remembered that, except on the Atlantic side, there is only 36 miles of sea between Paris and New York, the project does not seem so fantastic as w T ould appear at first sight. A Rongotea dairyman received from the factory for his month's milk, from a herd of twenty-one cows, L 35. SPRAINS are often more serious than broken bones on account of not being properly treated Apply Chamberlain's Pain Balm freely as soon as the injury is received and it will quickly restore the parts to a healthy condition A, Manoy sells it.

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