130-YEAR-OLD CARP.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 6 April 1908, Page 2

130-YEAR-OLD CARP.

KEEPER'S DISCOVERY AT HAMP-

TON COURT.

The royal and ancient carp placed by George I. in the Long Water at Hampton Court are in lower water than they have been for a century ja more. A body of unemployed have been turned on to dean, out the mud, and for this purpose the water has been lowered to 3ft or so.

■A number of the men are worinng from shallow ponfes. Recently a keeper in his wanderings found a fine fish, not improbably one of the oldest animals in England. The carp lives for an unknown period — a hundred years of age ie youth to. it — and the fisfi very possibly was one of those salved from the water 130 years ago, when the Long Water was last cleared. The foE was certainly of great age, as could be told • from the greyness of the scales — a sure sign of age in the carp.

PARASITIO DISEASES OF STOCK.— At this season young animals are more or leas affected by parasitic diseases, causing sconr and general weakening of ihe tvstem. "Verinociii«" is unequalled for all internal parasitic diseases of stock. Prepared by the A. and P. Pood Co., Ltd. Obtainable from Barmby and Cole, Hitweitt:— Advi. . : -