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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9401, 6 January 1894, Page 4 (Supplement)

The royal mail steamer Cameroon, which reached Liverpool on November 14, had on board Professor Garner, who , went out to South-weab Africa fourteen months ago to study the language of the monkey., Professor Garner considers he has succeeded in establishing what he went out to ascertain, viz., that the monkeys had a language which could, with study, be learned by man. The Professor has brought home with him two examples of the Kulu Kambra chimpanzee, which has a greater resemblance to the human race than perhaps any other animal. They show great intelligence, and by their sounds can convey to the Professor their wants and feelings. Professor Garner reached aboub 250 miles inland from the coast. He stayed in his steel cage 101 days, and while there had many opportunities of observing the wild animals in their native haunts. V' A lady told a party of friends that she had quarrelled with her and had planted a tree in memory of their first falling , out. " What a .splendid idea," whispered another lady in her husband's ear "if we had adopted than plan, we might have had by now. a fine, avenue of trees in our garden." . The sole wholesale agents for Reynolds and Co. 's "Anchor" butter are the London Dairy Company, Auckland.