PIGEON FLYING
DUNEDIN CLUB. The Dunedin Homing Pigeon Club flew an interval race last week-end from Parnassus, an airlino distance of 281 miles. The birds put up a remarkably good fly under adverse weather conditions. The winning bird was liberated at 9.15 a.m. and timed in at 2.32 p.m., making its time for the journey 6h 17min. The station master liberated nine pens, representing nine lofts, with the following results (in yards per minute) : F. Jones’s Ped Knight (1,560) ... ... 1 S. Lynn’s Corak (1,552) 2 A. Bartlett’s Bonny Spec (1,487) ...' 3 Stevenson and Hargreaves’s Santonio (1,464) 4 A. Kingston’s Red Rock (1,447) ... 5 Cl. Coutts’s Heroic (1,059) ... 6 Birds entered by W. Esquilant, E. Diehl, and J. Still also flow. The club will fly Gisborne, an airline distance of 641 miles, next Saturday.
A farmer at St. Etienne, France, bought a fowl, and when dressing it for dinner found inside it a diamond which has been proved to be of great value.
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Evening Star, Issue 18811, 9 December 1924, Page 1
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162PIGEON FLYING Evening Star, Issue 18811, 9 December 1924, Page 1
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