Tho syren from the wrecked steamer Devon lias been erected ar (lie Mastcrton "asworks as an auxiliary tiro alarm. A wild boar in the Waipara district, which has been doing damage by killing and ripping open full-grown sheep f or some weeks past, seems to have a, charmed life. A week or two since (says the Christchurch Press) one settler got near enough to fire three or four charges of shot at. him, but the pig still survives, and occasional sheep found on tho farms give evidence of its ferocity.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3117, 10 December 1913, Page 36
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