A GOOD HALL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 316, 9 November 1880, Page 2

A GOOD HALL.

The Swansea correspondent of the Hobart Town Mercury relates that on September Both a young man residing not far from Cole’s Bay saw an unusual number of large animals floundering in the water, and not knowing to what tribe they belonged, immediately started for Swansea, to obtain assistance in their capture. Messrs Glover and Quin- . manned a boat, and at once left for the scene, and' killed in ‘the water and on the beach , the incredible number of 86 whales, of the kind commonly known as finbacks or bumpers, j j The men waded close up to them and_.,, stabbed them with long knives behind the fin, the animals being entirely helpless in the shallow water, i'he bay dyed with blood, and their dying strug- = gies : caused quite - an agitation? of water for some distanced They are now-.w all on the sand at low tide, ahd in t«j shallow water when:the tide is in. The smallest of them measures from 26 feet to So feet. . Those who have been to view the animals declare that the immeense, number would not be credited ■ except by eye witnesses. The fortunate possessors are now exceedingly busy cut' - - ting up and boiling down the blubber . and putting the oil into all the spare casks and other vessels they can pro cure. 1 ,