MR COLLINS STRIKES A SNAG
(ByTolegraph-Oivn Correspondent)
Wumxgtox, Monday. _ Mr Collins, M.H.R., while lectur- 1 ing on " A search for the first man, and what 1 found by the way," last night, struck si serious scientific "snag " in the shape of Mr Joseph Taylor, a geological lecturer and converted Agnostic, A limelight apparatus, from which was produced the fossils ami skeletons of prehistoric ages, became refractory and showing signs of bursting, had to be extinguished, after which the battle between the Agnostic and the Christian began, and tho way in which they threw mammoth skulls, and Irish elks antlers and skins, at each other, became almost alarming. Mr Taylor promises to take up the cudgels against Mr Collins and the Darwinian School in a lecture next Sunday night.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4768, 9 July 1894, Page 3
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128MR COLLINS STRIKES A SNAG Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4768, 9 July 1894, Page 3
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