' A young girl in Belgium has just awakened after ten days' sleep. She had been given up for dead, and preparations had been made for her burial. It is estimated that the national sport of bull-fighting in Madrid costs every man, woman and child in the capital of Spain a considerable sum per annum. The'groat bustard is the rarest bird that comes under the head of game. This bird was formcrlv common in all the level districts of England, and particularly *on Salisbury Plain. An ostrich Uvea about thirty years, and the average annual yield of a bird in captivity is from two to four ponnas: of feathers. ■ 1
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6492, 11 April 1908, Page 10
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