A RARE WHALE.
For some considerable time past vessels passing » small bay near Pelorns have, been vidted, both in tbe daytime and Mtnii>ht by a peculiar murine creature or the wlnile species. Sometimes it w ■•nld swim ju-t abexl <>F the steamer wi'h its tail touching rh<- tte.n On Wednesday tifiernuon. ;r-j <he Gr.fto-; parsed by the biy mentioned, ir-JAno-Mi'Ctor, who \sn* on bo iii, strittoivd himself in tiro bow if) s.ti.-d'y himself ns to the nature of th" aoiirnl. ."-ir JAmes pr inouiiCi'ri the crcat ire, u> be a beluga, a fi-h of the cetaeeou- order, the only one he had sepn in I s ew Zealand. Up stated (hat the c wns no specimen of it. in the colonial museum, though the skull of one w:is secured from th** Maoris some years ayo in his opinion the ndj ct f the animal's antics was to rub the barnacles off its back against the ship's side
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2056, 26 May 1896, Page 2
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157A RARE WHALE. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2056, 26 May 1896, Page 2
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