CENTIPEDE IN FRUIT CASE.
THE REAL FIJI ARTICLE. Tho "Oamaru Mail" states that a local fruiterer, whilst unpacking a case of fruit this week, disturbed a visitor as unwholesome as it was unwelcome. This was a 9-inch long centipede, a lively specimen of the genus scolopondra, from Fiji. 'No time was lost in transferring the animal to a screw-top bottle, in' which it succumbed to tho narcotic influence of some methylated spirits afterwards inserted. There aro centipedes in New Zealand, but they are insects compared with the stowaway that visited Oamaru under the protection afforded by a case of fruit.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1108, 22 April 1911, Page 4
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100CENTIPEDE IN FRUIT CASE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1108, 22 April 1911, Page 4
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