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Lioness. This has been successfully accomplished, and 
a healthy young Lioness arrived safely on the morning 
of the 3rd January, 1879. 
At the close of last year a severe frost set in, 
accompanied by snow, and lasted for upwards of a 
fortnight, during which the ice on the Garden Lake 
attained, in places, a thickness of nine inches. Many 
visiters enjoyed the pastime of skating during the 
fortnight ; and your Council are happy to report that 
their carefully provided preparations to save life were 
quite unnecessary, as no accident of any kind occurred 
on the ice. : 
No deaths of animals were attributable to the frost, 
as special precautions were taken to supply additional 
fuel for the stoves, and extra straw for bedding. 
