Whilst engaged in a periodical clean ti]) of his cellar a Napier hotel licensee came across in an odd corner a eobwCbbed bottle obviously overlooked in previous cleanings, states the Telegraph. Taken into the daylight the bottle bore no distinguishing mark', and on being uncorked refused to disgorge the contents it certainly contained as indicated by its weight, On being broken there was found a solid mass of sugary substance. Molted down, the mass transformed itself into a luscious port wine that had evidently become solid through the course of years,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17130, 4 September 1926, Page 16
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