FINDS IN CAVES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 6 April 1926, Page 5

FINDS IN CAVES

MONEY AND FOSSILS .SYDNEY. March 25. They have been finding things in some of the eaves in -New South Wales dining the last week or two. Visitors to the famous iTennlan Caves indulge in Ihe extravagant habit of throwing money into the waters, clear as glass, of the unique unerdgroiind river there. One of the eaves stall' recovered a few days ago these offerinsrs of manv vears to the cave g«i.ls . TheV totalled' no less than C 426 M s 7d. to he precise. l! will go |o the local hospitals and ainhn lance service. The sum included nearly 430 J halfpence and iv than 11.000 pennies . Ten sovereigns were also recovered. Ihil a more interesting diseoverv was thai "f fossils at Ihe Wellington 'eaves, iu another pari of Ihe State. The iV, mls have been identified as ihe remains nf the diprolodon. said lo be the largest marsupial known lo scientists, greater in size tliaii a Full-grown rhinoceros, and possessing a remarkable resemblance in shape to the wombat, fossils of other strange animal-; were also found. The diprolodon, il is considered, was t'eil her a cave dweller m-r the vielim of carnivores, but had become entombed in these eaves bv misadventure. Standing abcul 6ft high and about 10ft. in leiigtn. the diprolodon, we are told, walked on ihe palms : ils hands and 'he soles of jls fed, and was a descen 'f; 1 " 1 of tree-climbing aiif-eslors. These discoveries are the best advertisement 'he Wellington caves have ever had. for few people ill the Stale had even heard "' them before. Now Ibal Ibev can I'l'-line l'-v,i| s of 11,,. rlinh-odoll, 'of i 1,,. P'-uched lion, the Tasmaniaii w< If. ~.,-! other queer animals, there will piohablv be (jiiile a rush |„ ||>ese caves. Ola-.-o Daily Times Cor.