The young salmon ex Oberon (says the Southland News) ' which have been for some months past kept in a tidal pool at Jacob's Elver, escaped last week by the giving way of a portion of the embankment of the dam. r As they had attained a fair size—about nine inches in length—it is thought they will stand as good a chance of eluding their natural enemies as they would have had if liberated, as intended, a few weeks later in the season. Be this as it may, we can now only wish the truants—there were about ninety of them—a good time in the " briny," and a safe return next year as shapely We leam from the Rangitikti Advocate that the natives from the neighborhood of Foxton state that a body was washed on shore a day or two since, and that they buried it m the sand. This is probably that of-the remaining sailor who was supposed to be in the forecastle of the unfortunate William and Mary.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4483, 2 August 1875, Page 3
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