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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1715, 11 January 1905, Page 75 (Supplement)

Mr Frank Palliser, who liberated the recently imported Himalayan thar at the Mount Cook sanctuary, has returned to Timaru. Owing to bad roads and swollen creeks, he had some difficulty in negotiating the journey beyond Pukaki, but the animals were safely landed at their destination. When the thar were let loose there was some trouble v/itlx one of the kids. It separated itself from the rest, and by the time it was recaptured the herd had gone away into the bush. The little one is being kept in captivity until there is a favourable opportunity for it to rejoin the herd. A party or Wanganui residents who ascended Ruapehu recemly encountered an unusual amount of snow. The last two thousand foot were travelled over snow slopes and glaciers, and the climbers bad to cut innumerable steps to make any progress. 'The de.se: nt was even mere difficult, as may bo scon from the fact that the mountaineers were for three hours cn one ice face. Next, day they a vended Ngnruhoe hut driving ruin and sleet made the ve> perience an unpleasant one.