THE EXHIBIT ION SEALS.
CHRISTCHURCH, July 25. Yesterday the inspector of the Society for -the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals shot a large seal that was stranded on the New Brighton Beach. The animal wat either sick or injured, and had been lying on the beach within high-water mark unable to move, but evidently suffering. Th« &col was one of those liberated after die close of the Exhibition. It was known locally at Nelly, and was & great pet witb the children, who fed it with scrape of meat and fish. This is considered to have unfitted it to make its own living when freed. Other Exhibition seals .(males) hevfl / been seen at various places on the coaet^ but they are apparently -doing well — too well for the comfort of anglers, who «till complain of the ravages among trout at tbe river mouths. A message received from Kaiapoi to-day states that two seals, believed to be Exhibition seals, were found! dead the beach. There were bullet wounds in the bodies, and the skins TaaJ been taken off.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2785, 31 July 1907, Page 33
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176THE EXHIBITION SEALS. Otago Witness, Issue 2785, 31 July 1907, Page 33
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