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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 70, 13 September 1911, Page 5

The end of the present session of Parliament is in view. Sir James Carroll informed a reporter at Te Kuiti on Saturday that tlie session would probaiblv end early next month. Following on a correspondent's story of a rodent which made nocturnal attacks on a boy in Thorndon comes another incident of a somewhat startling nature, which occurred in Majoribanks street, Wellington. According to the Post, a 10-months-old hoy sleeping* in a cot beside his parents'" I>ed awakened towards with a scream, and "when the light was switched on it was found that his mouth was bathed in blood from several small wounds in the upper lip. No trace of anything that could possibly have caused the injuries was apparent, and the following morning a well-known medical man to whom the child was taken for treatment declared that a rat must have seized the baby's upper lip and made its teeth meet through it. An investigation of the house, which is almost a new one, revealed the fact that rats had gnawed away the wood round an exit pipe and thus had easy entrance. There has been, it is stated, another visit made to the house in Thorndon where a hoy has suffered. Roslyn suits are built with a thorongit lcnowledge of the science of correot