Two lucky- workmen employed on a fa nr. at Nctheravon, in AViltshire, unearthed seyen silver spoons of the oil seal-top pattern in a fowlrun. The'Treasifry planned them as trea-sure-trove, and awarded the men and a jeweller to whom they took them £25 each. . ; A bird was. seen ;to fall in the yard of tjie ; works department at Deal .Barracks, It was a blue rock pigeon with an adder tightly coiled round it.' and both were dead. The adder, which measured 2ft Gin, was twisted round the pigeon’s neck and one wing, and the pigeon’s beak tightly .gripped the snake’s head.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2116, 26 June 1907, Page 1
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100Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2116, 26 June 1907, Page 1
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