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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1167, 5 October 1882, Page 2

I The s.s. Oreti left Auckland yesterday, I and is supposed to have trkei; shelter at | Hick’s Bay. j The sea in the Bay to-day h:i; been run- ! ning very high, in fact, higher Wan some of | the oldest residents in the bay I. vve seen it i for some time. j A story of extraordinary in ligence on ' the part of a dog (says an Eng'.i h paper) is ■ vouched for by Mr W. H. Pear n, of Dar- ' lington : “ There hangs in 11/ parlor a ( photograph of a large Newfou.. Hand dog, • which belonged to Mrs Riel irdson, of Lowell. She took him to hav. his photoI graph taken. When they got him fixed, • with that big tube pointing at hi i, he didn’t I like the look of it, and got up and shook 1 himself. He repeated this over*- time they I got things arranged. They co. d not get I him to sit. Finally, Mrs Rich::.<lson said, ‘ Yon are u bad dug : go home !' He sneaked i out as if ashamed, with his head down, and his tail between his lugs. He kept out of sight all day, and tho next morning was nilsi sing. About noon he camo trotting in, wag- ; ging his tail, and with every indication of ■ u happy dog. Ho hud u package tied round I his neck, which Mrs Richardson, on taking I it off, found to bo a photograph of himselL i She went down to tho photographer for an explanation, where she learned the dog had i that morning returned there, stationed him- • self before the tube, and gave the artist to understand that he wanted his picture taken. He sat perfectly still, and the artist took it.”