LARGE WHALE S RANDED.
CHPJSTCHURCH. February 19.
The body of a large whale was washed «iiore a.t Hokitika, and the residents proceeded to remove the blubber. The chairman of the Canterbury College Board of Go\ernors (Mr G. W. Russell) took steps to acquire the i-keleton for the Christchurch Museum, and he has been successful in doing this. The curator (Mr T. W. Waite). accompanied by a taxidermist, will leave for the West Coast to-day to arrange for transporting the skeleton to Cliristchurch. where it will be erected in the Mu«oum. The skeleton is about 87ft long, and will form a very valuable exhibit. Mr Waite will supervise the work of gathering the bones, which will be numbered so as to ensuye accuracy. Probably "some special provision will have to be' made at the museum for the reception of the skeleton.
The world's deepest shaft is that of the Calumet and HecJa copper mine, at Michigan. United States which reaches a depth of 8100 ft.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2815, 26 February 1908, Page 15
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164LARGE WHALE SRANDED. Otago Witness, Issue 2815, 26 February 1908, Page 15
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