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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 125, 5 June 1895, Page 3

A Sydney showman assorts positivoly that he lias on view in one of Ms tanks a veritable sea serpent. It was caught in the sea at Little Coogee. It is about three feet long, dark on the hack, aad a light yellow colour underneath. It has all the appearances and movements of a serpent. The tail, instead of running to a point, broadens perpendicularly, None of the fishermen havo ever seen anything like it before. It is still alive and moves with snake-like movements through the water. J. E. Winner who, years ago, and merely as a diversion, wrote the words and music of 'Little Brown Jug,' took tho precaution to copyright tho production, which sold up in the hundred thousands and realised a tidy sum for its author. Mr Winner's brother 'Sep,' is the composer of "The Mocking Birds, 1 which made for him a small fortune. Curiously, tho author of 'The Jug,' one of tho most popular of drinking songs, always has been a total abstainer. A steamer, carrying 750 live fat cattle, will shortly leave Sydney for England. Tho shipment of so many in one bottom will materially lessen expenses. At Wollongong Alfred Eric ArkiD has been committed for trial on a charge of bigamy. From the evidence adduced, it appears that ho married Catherine Kegan at Hay in 1889, and then married Margaret llobinson at Wollongong last year, since when ho is said to havo married a woman in Tareo, and another at Ballina. The Imperial Government has asked the New Zealand Government to recommend a suitable stock inspector, with a knowledge of scab, for tho Falkland Islands, Australian stoamors occasionally call there. The salary at first ofrorod is £3OO, but in tho event of this failing to secure a response it will bo raised to £4OO. One hundred and thirty stags have been secured in Nelson this season. Something like an equal nuniber have Leon shot and not secured. And now lie sportsmen say:—"Unless more rare is taken in the future, there will be a dinger to exterminating the deer."

Ask for Hancocks Celebrated xxxx Ales Stout.