THE LAST OF THE SEALS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 174, 25 July 1907, Page 5

THE LAST OF THE SEALS.

STRANDED/SHOT AND SKINNED

r faRESS ASSOCIATION.] July 25. Yesterday the inspector of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals went- to Now Brighton and shot a large seal stranded on the beach. • The animal was either sick or injured. It had being lying on the i beach within high-water mark, unable to move, but evidently suffering, and was shot as an act of mercy. The seal was a female and was one, of those, liberated after the close of the Exhibition. It was known locally as> "Nelly" ; it was very tame, and a great, pet with children, who fed it with titbits of njeat and fish. This coddling and tameness is considered to have unfitted the seal to make its own living when freed.

The other Exhibition.seals are males, and have been seen in various places on the coast, but are apparently doing we ll—too well for the comfort of anglers, who still complain of the ravages among trout at the river-mouths. . Later.

A message received from Kaiapoi today states that two seals, believed to be Exhibition seals, have been found dead near Eaiapoi, with bullet-wounds in their bodies and their skins taken off.