Tbo Poverty Bay Herald relates the following: — A cask of beef came lo light under rather unusual circumstances. A prisoner was engaged in cleaning up a yard of tho lock-up, when he came across a bard substance buried some few inches below the surface, which proved to be a cask of salt beef. On being exposed to the light of day, the cask was found to be in an advanced slate of decay, but the meat was in a far belter slate of preservation considering tbat it has remained hidden upwards of five years, ever since the eventful Poverty Bay massacre, when it was "planted" in case of a siege taking place. Although far from being decomposed, the beef was oot exactly eatable, and it was again buried by the police.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 170, 31 July 1874, Page 2
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131Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 170, 31 July 1874, Page 2
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