Untitled

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3755, 10 January 1881, Page 2

The Orient Company's steamship Chim. borazo, bound from Plymouth to! Adelaide, went ashore in Backetair's Passage, ia G-ulf St. Vincent. She lies in seventeen foot; of water, and it will take twenty-aeveu feet to float her. The passengers are landing oh the coast. ■■ „ . ._ _ ■ ■ ' *•"-• .

A Maobi TBADiTroN.—An intereitinc experiment is to be tried shortly fn"one of the lakes or lagoons at Mr CaverhiU'g Hawera. It appears, says the local paper! that there is one particular lake where no wild ducks or sea fowl ever swim, although upon the sheets of water near they are constantly to be seen. The Maoris have a tradition that a taniwha lives in this lake, and that its presence accounts for the.birds avoiding it. They have a further story of eels with long fins, differing from the ordinary sorts, being found in these waters, and it is now proposed to test the truth of these legends. Dv Hector has offered to supply dynamite for explosion under water upon condition that any specimens of rare fish are preserved and forwarded to the Museum Mr Caverhill' has procured a boat, and another search for the traditional taniwha of the Maoris is to be instituted. It wa« generally suppose by scientific men that the taniwha was some kind of alligator or shark, but hitherto, whenever a supposed tamwha has come to hand; it hai proved to be an unusually large eel. It i a well known that large eels, such as are fouritf in the lagoons near the sea on thisooast mil seize any bird that comes within their reach; they have even been known to seize and devour a shag. r • :

I cannot understand," said Jones, how it is is that if I drink another man's health until I think he is very healthy, my own health always suffers." *