A STRANGE FISH.
VISITANT AT WELLINGTON.
Mild excitement prevailed on the Wellington waterfront last Thursday evening, when the news circulated that a strange fish could be seen disporting itself around the propellers of the coastal 6teamer Ucle, which was lying at No. 6, Queen's Wharf. Three people, who witnessed the antics of the stranger, allege that its proportions would compare favourably with those of a cow, that its eyes were "ar. large as saucers," and that it possesed an inordinately long tail. As the Gale took her departure at 9 p.m. the fish, it is said, could he seen rising above the water to the swell caused by the churning of the propellers, but shortly afterward it disappeared. An old seafaring identity, who saw the fish only indistinctly, informed a reporter th3t he believed it to be a seal of the tua species, and that some years ago one of the same variety inhabited the wa';er around No. 4, Queen's Wharf for about, three weeks.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18020, 20 February 1922, Page 8
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165A STRANGE FISH. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18020, 20 February 1922, Page 8
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