Untitled

NZ Truth, Issue 82, 12 January 1907, Page 5

From the "Post" of last Saturday :— MACDONALD.-On Sunday, 30th December, 1906, at 68, Majori-bank-street, Wellington, New Zealand, to Mignone (Wilson) and Evelyn Macdonald, . Pahiatua— a son. Thanks to Drs. Henry and Gilmer and Nurse Blake. What the deuce do they mean anyhow"? The whale has the thickest skin among animals. It is nowhere less than several inches, and m some parts two feet m thickness. The thickest skinned quadruped is the Indian rhinoceros, whose hide has a knotty surface, and is so impenetrable as to be able to withstand the claws of the lion or the tiger, and the bullet from the old-fashioned smooth bore rifles, Another animal that a cannon ball could make little impression upon is the Wellington bar bum d-nd talepitches