A sharp shock of earthquake was experienced in Wellington at 3.57 on Tuesday, 21st inst. An uncommon experience, and one that, fortunately, could not happen at all in New Zealand, befell a lady angler at dunes, in Victoria, a few days ago. She was fishing for trout in the Tourello Creek, and had baited her lino with a frog, which, when oast, waa immediately taken, as she thought, by a big fish. She drew the line in, end received u shock when eho saw, instead of a trout, a snake wriggling at the end of it. She landed the reptile, which was five feet in length, and which had been firmly hooked, and some men who had tom* in rcenonee to her shrink* tor v;n^i
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Otago Witness, Issue 3111, 29 October 1913, Page 27
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