MARINE MONSTER WASHED ASHORE.
f .'A3? GOOSE]BAY. '. 1 Chrlstchurch, January 6 - •-A correspondent of .the '-Lytteltbri iWs" writes :—''Stranded "on- tho-'rdoks'lsfc ' Goose Bay, on tho Cheviot-Kaikoura' coach road," lies tne body of a' suqh . to. have been \von£ r te / 'read"'of' in tli'e gvprks, of [Frank Bnlleh; The'-strange,- 1 mon-. probably been dead . several' days,; ,ib& body laving, riot -improbably,. been cast 'during'■the',r°'Ugh ; aiid.high Beas' prevailed tfe.iio'ast ib'out a* week ago..' It air octopiis; i-H}! 1 : ® ore vclqselr : . what-1 have .Befell ioUusferatea ;.representmg'v : thatpowerful enemy. : of I tlie; ■: SjHalc'y ]:{t» squidi. it' is ' dead .wli.ite in '.throughput thfe entire lengtH or- ; lts body, n'liich, m elts' present shrunken ,is _>bout ,sft. . ift . its tentacles :being. a. foot ■or two longer; and having the L-appterance of' having' been' damaged' at tho' -A,'! the tentaclcs spripg from the ;S. e .?"> •■''here are also certain', orifices- in the but ■ the eye itself could- not be disJoafnea.:-' The head Js .unfortunately' all but from the bo'dy. -but' is; otherwiße' in ,a perfect : . state of preservation."': t- - • . J T~
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 399, 7 January 1909, Page 8
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174MARINE MONSTER WASHED ASHORE. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 399, 7 January 1909, Page 8
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