A grappling iron, about three feet in length, and of a very old design has been dug out of the ground at Mr Patterson’s farm on the Brother’s Range, near Mackenzie Country. Originally it had five prongs, but two have been broken off. It was found in a clump of ferns at an elevation of about two thousand feet above the sea level, and as nobody in the neighborhood seems to know anything about it, the question what brought a grappling iron into such a position is occasioning no little perplexity. The iron may be seen at Messrs Jonas, Hart and Wildie’s,
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2326, 31 August 1880, Page 3
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102Untitled South Canterbury Times, Issue 2326, 31 August 1880, Page 3
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