SNAKES ALIVE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 10 June 1924, Page 7

SNAKES ALIVE.

A SHOWMAN'S LOSS

■T CABM—PRKBB ASSOCIATION—TOPYaiGHi Received June 10, 11.45 a.m.

;: . BRISBANE, June 10. [■' On Saturday night a basket was left '. in the Maryborough parcels office,. the contents1 being unknown. During the night rats gnawed a hole in the basket, and next morning two snakes were .killed on the railway station. When the parcel office was opened four others, large specimens, were discovered crawling on the floor, and were killed. Later in the day a man called and demanded the basket. He explained that it contained snakes belonging to a show which had been exhibiting in the town, and stated that six more snakes, all venomous, were unaccounted for. Subsequently three of the jnissing snakes were discovered in various parts of the station, and were killed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.