A TORTOISE WHICH OUTLIVED EIGHT ARCHBISHOPS.

Manawatu Herald, 13 September 1889, Page 3

A TORTOISE WHICH OUTLIVED EIGHT ARCHBISHOPS.

. Xji ' • flic " Primate on Saturday gave the second, of a series of four garden * ; Sl "! parties 'at Lajnbetli Palace. This •■j '■' year his Grace has invited the clergy v.i ■•.and their families, with the result ■\ihat considerably over 1,000, visitors \ 'jieriodically grace the Palace lawn. Music is provided, fey the clever band of die,- East London Industrial School, and • " lighij.. refreshments ."■ , ti are served in the Old Guard ... Chamber, now the principal dining-- , ' . roomy in which ai'« hung the heir- !) '\ loom portraits of the Archbishops of There was one veiy little incident at the party. Professor Flower showed the tor--1 toise of Archbishop Jjaud, which he • ' i)<! ljrbught from Fulhain to Lambeth ",''■/. wtien ho became Archbishop,, and )/,,^iich: lived 130 years, and during „ . ttat time saw ei.fjht archbishops, r ml* would have livod probably many •' l "';" : \%iiri longer but £or the caielessness "'?)'£ the gardiner, vrho dug it out of its , t> , s hole one winter .and did not find it '.WfanoftkeE*. Its sliell had been, pre--<t' served, and was in the palace, but *fro.m being much knocked about had lost some of its. parts. .Professor ; the Archbishop's permission to look it up, and have the description, which was almost . obliterated by tinier and ill-us.age, deciphered, and have it i^laced under agraßi case, with its history properly engraved oh a silver plate. The '[^oise'fet' ■Petbi-sburgh CathVclral was a siill more wbuderfu! one even than its Lambeth- brother, for it was- . Irtiown to be over one hundre.l and l - ' .eit My, yea sold when it died, also ,;iti ; pmaii accident, and Bishop Jeuue „'^haft. its i shell preserved, witn an in- ; 'scription narrating its age and his-' '■'■■; twy; ■" ; ■ ■ . '. • ■•