DOMINION NEWS.
COASTAL STEAMER STNKS. Blenheim, March 2. The small steamer Elsie, engaged in the Sounds trade, struck a. rock off Long [slnml, Queen Charlotte Sound, and Bankin twenty minutes. All aboard were saved. A peculiar phenomenon on the Waikanae (Gisborne) beach last weeTc was the presence of millions of globular objects which, when trodden on, hurst with a sharn "pop," as do some species of seaweed. Persons handling the globules, however, were somewhat badly stung, the hands swelling up painfully within a few minutes (states' the <3w'borne Times). Several people were made victims in the course of the afternoon, among them being a bather who was stung on the knee while in the water, and then stung on the hand when he attempted to crush the offender. It is thought that the globules are a variety of the genus Physalid, or "Portuguese Man-o'-War" " These marine globules arc fairly common on the West Coast beaches between the Kaipara and tManukau Harbor*.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1918, Page 5
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161DOMINION NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1918, Page 5
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