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Temuka Leader, Issue 2582, 16 November 1893, Page 3

The Mermaid Sensation.— The Orkney Mermaid has caused another sensation by appearing in her old haunts at Deerness, accompanied by a young one. During the past fortnight, says the Scotsman, both the old and the young one have been seen frequently in the vicinity by different persons. The young one is of a white color and swims in the same fashion as the old one, by throwing its arms out in front of the head and bringing them in towards the side. Last summer an attempt was made to shoot the strange visitant, when it dis-' appeared, but this summer no o re has tried to molest it. The Small Birds Nuisance. —At last meeting of the Levels Road Board. Mr Balfour asked the Board to express an opinion on the question of baying eggs and the heads of birds. The Temuka Board had expressed their disapproval of it. Mr Campbell said that the County Conned had knocked off poisoning in the very best time of the year, when the birds were nesting, and ready to eat anything they could get. Mr Mee proposed that the balance of poisoned wheat on hand should be distributed at once, and also that eggs should be purchased as heretofore. This was carried unanimously. Mr Pringle said his experience showed that November is the best month for poisoning, and Mr Campbell explained that there are no seeds of any kind for the birds to get, and they will take poisoned grain freely. A Remarkable Child, Amid the wonders of the Chicago show not the least is a little visitor of 13, who started life deaf, dumb, and blind, and is now said to be as well educated as any child of her age. The good Phillips Brooks, the late Bishop of Massachusetts, took a great interest in the developmentof her faculties, to assist which the sense of touch had to be educated to do the work of the senses she was deprived of. A bust of him being brought to her after his death, she swiftly passed her hands over it, and discovered a hitherto unobserved defect. “ That is not true to life,” she said—for she has been “ taught to articulate with some distinctness “ one side of the face is larger than the other.” She never forgets a face her fingers have once passed over, and “ she can rapidly read the words uttered by another by simply placing her Sogers upon the speaker’s lips.” If all this is correct (remarks the St. James’s Gazette), little Helen Keilar is one of the most wonderful instances of the triumph of cultivation over natural disabilities that have ever been heard of.

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