WHALE SHOOTING AT OHIWA.
A Shoal-of fourteen . wh.alesrenterecl the- ■ OhiW hajbpijr on. Sunday); and wo'nt.ijfo/|he 'river for some distance. paßt tH^cite];,'.;Mr. '.Bushton, the ferry; man, ~}Vas..the.first person to see^em,-. and bfli!igTunaljle;t,o geVlaiiypne.jfegQ. i*ith .him to give- diase,;%,.p]ijt'ipj%, '\imself, and, .tailed, after, tjieiii in hot ■Baste,, ; .The wind was • blowing--.very ; hard ;and.]ie' eolild not/tie Lite sail, but had■to.hpld on to-jt with: .he fired: his rifle'with thelithei'/jjHeflred .twice at;iu distance^ "about 2dd yards, and hit and wttundetl. awhalewith.both; the shots, butvW was unsuccessful in capturing .eitheiv and, afteijiSporting thegjselveß'ab'ou,* harb.o'dt^oi'.som'etime,';thcy a,tt ; cle^rc^ out .tiyJr''|be Wj". and : off-to • seaagaia;.. The'.'ni|i,ve,'s assert .that whales.;havf( aevec/l^en,'Seen inside, the bar at Ohiffa wnce; Captain- Cook visited ifew . 'they regard the eyeniar^ an omen.' '.pf. ajipthei:. season of great proßperjtyi to the district.--ißay./of rlenty-Times. . -
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1270, 5 January 1883, Page 3
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127WHALE SHOOTING AT OHIWA. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1270, 5 January 1883, Page 3
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