LATER. VERY LIKE A WHALE.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 141, 13 February 1886, Page 5

LATER. VERY LIKE A WHALE.

Mangonvi, 1 p.m. The weather has changed. It is raining a nd blowing with a moderate breeze from the North. The master of the steamer Fingal, at Awanui, reports having visited several places on the Eatt Coast, and seen no wreckage. Mr Shannon, run-holder between North Cape and Ahipara, came into the latter settlement yesterday having ridden milea alohg the beach between Cape Maria van _ Dieman and Ahipara He reports ne sign of wreckage, and the Maoris and settlers on the coast have observed nothing unusual during the past week. Had there been any upheaval or disturbance fof any kind , the settlers on the coast feel confident they would have noticed some difference in the tides, but euch is not the case, either on the East or West Coast. The Maoris are inclined tothink that the object seen by Captain Savoy was an immense whale lost by them. They hung on for several hours till sundown, when the monster was carrying them rapidly out to the Pacific, and they had to cut the line to save themselves. With some difficulty, they xeached shore next morning.

Statement by a Parengarenga Settler The opinion expressed by the natives at Mongonui that the mysterious object is a dead whale is confirmed by Mr S. Yatep, a Parengarenga settler, who is at pressnt ir town. He says that a fortnight ago the natives shot a whale, which "they subsequently lost through it sinking. He believes it has since risen to the surface, and the carcase becoming distended by gas, caused it to float buoyantly. It is not improbable that distance lent enchantment to Captain Savory's view, and lengthened the object to 200 feet, A comparatively short distance intervenes from where the whale was lost to the spot at which Captain Savory saw the object which has aroused so much curiosity.