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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3230, 29 May 1911, Page 7

A 'comedy, which was not. without its serious side, was enacted in the- harbour the other evening (says the “Timaru Herald.”) A man had grown tired of his old retriever deg, and hit upon a novel way of getting rid of him. He rowed to the’harbour mou th in company with the dog, and there tipped the weighted animal out. The dog’s death struggle was greater than the owner had reckoned upon, however, for he succeeded in paddling 1) outwards, and sprang so- suddenly into- the fragile craft that the man lost, • his balance and was tipped into the water. ,It was then tbalt the funniest scene as viewed by a wachman and some wharf workers took place, the dripping dog squatting carelessly in the boat and watching his master splutter and splash for a .place of safety. Assistance was soon at hand and the'man, thoroughly, exhausted, was rescued. The dog was towed ashore, and will now he disposed of by another method—anything but drowning. £2O reward offered to any person imr that a reliable watch is not a man » best friend. Grieve, Jeweller, guarantees every Watch that leaves his pren*