In China, owing to icligions scruple*, all the telegraph w.res are buried underground. The natives object to the shadow of a telegraph pole falling on the burial place of their ancestors, and as craves were everywhere to bo found the Government eventually decided to bury the wires. A number of coolies working in the Gaya district. India, saw a huge snake fourteen feet long come out of a thicket, seize a sheep out of a flock, which wea crazing, and devour it.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5483, 11 January 1905, Page 5
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