Page 3 Advertisements Column 2

Star (Christchurch), 20 December 1907, Page 3

" So long as we love," wrote Robert Louie Stevenson, "we serve. So long as we are loved by others I would almost say we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend." For the first time in. forty years a giraffe has been born in. the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park, and the new arrival was on view on September 22 for the first time. All day long there was a constant stream of visitors to the house where the babe and its gigantic mother were housed. The new arrival is a female, and already measures sft lOin to the top of her head. She is a remarkably pretty creature, with a coat of the daintiest fawn colour, bearing well-defined white check markings and a shapely dark brown lead, which at present she seems to find it hard to support, for slie cannot hold it upright for more than a few minutes at a time.