The M. Express informs its readers that Dr. Sickler of Havclock has found some relics in a bay near that place, which he believes to be those of the raoa. The portion found appears to be the upper pare of the skull ; it is eight inches long, and 2ft 2Ln. in circumference. The lower portion is' missing. The Doctor believes the bird to have been about sixteen feet high. He has two other and more complete specimens which he found on a former occasion. The Geelong Register reports: — "The "first steam flax and hemp dressing machinery ever established in the colony commenced work ou Thursday, at Bellerine, at the old mill near Drysdale. The trial result was very successful, about a hundred-weight of the retted straw being cleaned very quickly and perfectly. With the appliances which Mr. M 'Andrew has at present he will be able to turn out a ton of fibre weekly. It now
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 80, 7 June 1866, Page 3
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