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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2014, 7 January 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

That Frogs have a formidable enemy in the mouse is evidenced by the followin'' incident. A correspondent, Mr. W. August Carter, of South Norwood, states that he observed a short time since several mice pursuing aome frogs in a shed which was overrun with these reptiles. The alacrity of the latter, however, rendered the attack of the mice futile for a considerable perils!. Again and again the frogs escaped from the clutches of their foes, but only to be recaptured, severely shaken, and bitten. The enegry put forth by these reptiles was so great that they actually swaysd their captors to and fro in their effort to wrest themselves from their grasp. At length the wounds inflicted upon them rendered the frogs incapable of further resistance, and they were easily overpowered by the mice, which devoured a certain part of them. At the Meeting ol the Royal Society of Tasmania recenty the Curator of the Museum stated that during the past month Mr. Vimpany had captured a black snake (Ih jilocrphaliit rvrhi*) at I.ongley, measuring about four feet three inches in length. On opening it the unprecedented number of 109 young ones were found in her. The specimens now before the meeting are the largest ones, the measurement being from 8J inches to |of an inch in length. Mr. Morton stated that the greatest number be bad known previously to be taken from a similar snake was 32, but he had been informed by s resident of Tasmania that over 70 bad bass taken from a similar species,