A large bird, resembling a wild duck, alighted on the deck of the White Star liner Homeric in an exhausted condition when the steamer was about 100 miles from the Scilly Isles on her homeward trip from New York a few weeks ago. The bird, which was _ very vicious, was captured with the aid of a blanket. It was web-footed, white in colour, with black tipped wings, and a long, tapering beak. After a rest it recovered, and was released recently. Coal has been reached at a new pit at Thoresby, Nottinghamshire, within a mile of the famous Major Oak. To preserve the beauty of the surroundings the pit is without' chimneys, and' smokeless.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20450, 3 July 1928, Page 16
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