Collided with a Whale. — The Yarmouth Herald says tbat the packet schooner, Forest Oak, from .Boston, when about thirty mdes from Yarmouth, the other day, ran agamst a whale with sucb force as to knock the fore foot nearly off. The schooner was afc the time running at a speed of seven knots, ancl the whale was not seen till a inomeiit before the colhsioa. The schooner passed over the whale, which must have bren Killed by the shock, as a mass of od immediately apposed on the suriace. Whilst the repair:rendered necessary by the colhsioh were being made, af cr the arrival of the vessel in port, a strip of the ston of the whale was found attached to the lore-foot. VVbo were the first newspaper subscribers? — Cain and Joshua, Uain took " A Sell's Life," and Joshua, osdered lh§ " Sun,"
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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 205, 19 January 1866, Page 3
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141Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 205, 19 January 1866, Page 3
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