While drawing in his set nets at Island Bay one morning lately, Mr. Smith, fishmonger, of Willi3-streot, Wellington, was caught round the arm by an octopus. Mr. Smith tried to pull the tenacious animal off, but was unable, and it was not until ho had severed two of its arms that he got free. The octopus, though not a particularly large one, only measuring about five feet from the tip of one sucker to the other, would have proved a terrible foe to anyone in the water.'
In consequence of the delay occasioned by the strike, detaining our goods per s.s. Kaikoura in Lyttelton, the intended grand millinery show which was to have been held on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 4th, sth, and 6th of September, will be held in our show room this day, Monday, and Tuesday, the 27th, 29th, and 30th September instant. Exors. Thomas Short. (No lady will be expected, unless she so desires to make purchases on those days.)
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8374, 30 September 1890, Page 6
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