WASPS. 



ke his tackle, taking away the hook, 

 >«-e, and float. Exactly a fortnight later 

 pas fishing near the saj&e spot for roach, 

 }e,_or perch, with roacii pole, very fine 

 • line, and small hook. On moving the 

 4 after a time it felt as if it were hooked 

 ilog. 



C thought that 1 must break away," the 

 "*r says. " Before doing so, however, I 



11 one more stronger trial; and my 

 g friends can imagine my amazement 

 the weight save and I felt a tug, and 



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3 12*111X6 COINCIDENCE. KILLED BY- 



i feurio us fishing coincidence is described \ While 6ervH&g auests at some*weddm 

 if Mr. W. J. Wilkinson in a letter to 1 festivities in the village of Shouldham, near 

 mtry Ltfe. He was pike fishing in the! King's Lynn, Norfolk, yesterday, a waiter 

 w Kiver on February 18 when a large fish * named Frank Potter was stung on the lip 



by a wasp. He goon became unconscious 

 and died within a few minutes. 



A wasp swallowed with a mulberry has 

 caused the death of a. girl named Haden, 

 aged thirteen, at Bourne End, Herts. 



A beekeeper in the Bourne district of Lin- 

 colnshire hag had many pounds of honey 

 destroyed by a large swarm of wasps in- 

 vading a beehive and turning out the occu- 

 pants. Wasps have also taken complete f 'Z''* 

 possession of many plum trees in the dis- 

 trict. 



4 on the surface. 1 at once recog- %• — " «^»r,« m «, n » T - ~ l ~_—,i „_-«-.«,_..■.» 



J'190 to Kill 45,000 Eats.— At Saffron 

 Waiden Kural District Council yesterday 

 the " Rat. '' Committee reported that, during 

 the last six months, 45,000 rats had been 

 destroyed in that district at' a cost to the 

 ratepayers of .£190 5s. 2d. 



at I had hooked the pike that had 

 roken away from me, and had been 

 about with the Jar-dine hook ' and , 



ver since.'" 



ght tackle held the fish until a land- 

 "i was brought. The pike was landed | 



ned the scale at 91b. 15oz. 



ds of Thames dace have congre- 



Lst below Hampton Court Weir for 



g purposes, the river, in places be ; ng 

 black with the shoals. In the foam 



are to be seen leaping, salmon-like, 



effp-T ts to get over the weir„ 



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rorkraen were engaged lnrlira.inage 

 is at Acton Town Station., on the 



Railway, this a.f tea-noon, they 



a manhole am otter, 3ft. Gin. in 

 rom head to tail. 

 fbrought it to the surface, but the 

 gied shortly afterwards, 

 lought that its death may have been 



trie shock, as the animal has been 



mg across f he metals. 



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A fine specimen of a female otter, which was 

 recently caught at Acton Town Station, District 

 Railway, has been preserved, aad is now on view 

 on the west-bound platform of tlte Mansion House 

 Station. £>J*rs&3? t %£ SS.J&& _ 



SWIMMERS A TTA CKED B Y EELS. 



42 .•V^/VL- — -r /y sy// 



Writing in the " Salmon a"nd Trout 

 Magazine," Colonel R. F. Meysey-Thompson 

 gives a,n instance of swimmers being at- 

 tacked by eels, with fatal results. 



Many cases of bathers being drowned oc- 

 curred m a rapidly flowing river near an out- 

 station in New Zealand owned by a relative 

 of Colonel Meysey-Thompson. After some 

 time it was found that the fatalities were 

 due to the swimmers being seized by eels — 

 ^ whioh attain an immense size in those waters 

 THE ZOO. i— and dragged beneath the surface of the \ 

 •- J2*&v**4 r y^+, water. The bodies when recovered were in- *||fc 

 • !, Londmf Zoo -i variably found to be partly eaten by eels. jg|g 



of the rare j 

 pozei (islands 

 was presented to J 

 "tngucy. director] 



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■<AS ; - 



s ■* spe 

 ia-D). fr^n the C 



. Louis F 



>ufci! & fricau Mr.ft.-um." Cape Town, 

 to a species now verging on ex-j 



Iking home on Tuesday night I was 

 by a large owl," writes Mr. B. 

 of Clifton., Bedfoi-dshire. " It 

 cap from my head and used its 

 such an extent as to make the 



N RFOLK . *& .«tf tiP<0% 



's Daily Bathe in the Sea..— A hare 



tad made a daily practice of swim- 



tbe se^ at Cley, to the delight of 



has been captured by some local 



n in fcnat. They chased the 



^award for 300 yards before they^j 



with it. The hare was then exr 



rand was easily captured. « 



[L HUN T AT G RAVESEND. 



excitement prevailed at Gravesend yester- 



Jrnoon owing to the presence of a seal in 



canal, which had come up the Thames 



}iy with the morning tide. 



af, which was a fine specimen, first made 



^canal lock, but afterwards escaped to 



"anal, where it was hunted by a large 



people. 



. r given, that it was to be left 

 i it, vcunding it is th 



A"S^iTton^n-5eaTCiiiculnshire)corresr>on- 



nt writes, ©tating that while, two members 



the local golf club were playing on the 



links a hawk swooped down'and flew 'away ^ 



with one of the balls in its cdaws.^V**pRwf ^ 



Several thousands of lampreys have been , 

 light in the Thames near Molesfcyaad iect 

 dington in the last few days. 4»*4nj[m*S. 





Five voung robins have been reared in a 

 nest behind a picture in the infants' school 

 at "East Peckham, near Tonbridge, Kent. 



Three pike, weighing 1-tlb 

 9lb., were caught in one outii 

 [Nene, near Peterboroti 



[Ward, of New Fletto 



121b 

 in the 



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.•ough, by Mr. ..Ceo;., 



