W I C H U RA’S
VRYSTAA TSE
WHISKY'.
Glen Distillery!
WHISKEY,
F.C. BRANDY,
DOP BRANDY.
In Hlitis., 1 Casks and
\
Aums.
Prices apply to
C. W. CHAMPION,
Selling Agent.
OM STREEKS 1900 is daar whisky en brande- w yn op die plaas Bishop’s Glen digby Bloem fontein gestook, asook bier gebrou.
Veral die whisky by nam e O ’Sullivan’s S hannon Blend Superior Whisky het nogal redelike be- kendheid verwerf.
Die stokery het b eh o o rt aan Alfred W ichura en van hierdie whisky is gedurende die m oeilike oorlogsjare aan Engelse soldate verkoop. Die eienaar h et klaarblyklik van K aapstad gekom n ad at die firm a A. Ohlsson van A nneberg Brou- ery horn op bierbrouery begin toele h et. ’n Hele aantal kleiner brouerye h et o f opgehou om te bestaan o f is oorgeneem deur O hlsson se Kaapse Brouery Beperk, w at in 1889 geregistreer is. Hoewel die Anglo-Boereoorlog ’n strem m ende uitw erking op die brouery en sto k ery gehad h e t, h et die Britse m ilitere ow erheid d it as noodsaaklike bedryw e beskou en is produksie in 1900 hervat.
G rondstow w e m oes per ossewa vanaf Natal ko m , terw yl noodvoorrade suurdeeg per fiets vanaf B loem fontein na die plaas B ishop’s Glen vervoer is.
G een m oeite o f koste is ontsien om te voorsien in die gro o t vraag na bier nie.
Graag verneem ons skriftelik van persone w at kennis dra van die ou dae to e b ier, brandew yn en whisky in die V rystaat gebrou o f gestook is.
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J .o .p . D IE be kite van voels is deur die eeue aangepas by ’n groot verskeidenheid vo e dings om standig- hede. M isvorm ing van b ekk e van ko u vo els is al- gem een bekend. In die n a tu u r k o m d it o o k d ik - luels voor maar is uit die aard van omstandighe- de nie so o p m erklik so os by kouvoels m e. In die natuursiaat w ord wanskopige individue ook vroeer uitgeskakei as w at die geval m et m ak voels is. M isvorm ing is nie noodw endig aan be- senngs toe ce s k r y f me. In te ling en gene tie se af- ivykings ko.ri daarvoor verantw oordelik wees. Die b o k m a kie n e fM alaconotus zeylonusy o'o meegoande jo to is in die distrik L u c k h o ff ge- vm d en het. te o or dele aan sy ontw ikkeling, n unsiens een jaar aan die lewe gebly ten sp y te van die gebrck aan sy snaweL.
FEW people have ever seen a live pangolin in the O .F.S. and we appeal to persons w ho can give us m ore inform ation on the occurrence o f this animal to w rite to the M useum.
T he Pangolin or scaly an te ate r, Manis tem -
m in c k ii is a toothless m am m al characterized by
an a rm o u r o f scales (w hich are m odified hairs). The underside o f the head, neck and body and inside o f the legs are scaled. The eyes and ears are very small.
The pangolin feeds up o n certain ants and te r m ites w hich it o btains by breaking open the m ounds w ith its sh o rt forelegs eq uipped with long digging ciaws. T he long sticky protactiJe tongue to which the insects adhere, is th en in serted in to the nest.
One y o ung is b o rn a t a tim e and is carried aro u n d on the base o f the tail of the m o th er. When d isturbed th e female curls up (like a hedgehog) enveloping her young.
The to tal length o f a pangolin is ap p ro x im ate ly 900 mm and it has a mass o f 10 kg. Very little is know n a b o u t its distrib u tio n . However, it appears th a t this animal never occurred fu r th er south than the Orange River and th a t it
is restricted to savannah veld.
There is reason to believe th a t there may still be a few pangolins left in the O .F.S. as one was killed in 1968 on the highway betw een Boshof and Kim berley. The only o th e r recorded speci men fo r the O .F.S. is one collected in 1895 in the H oopstad district. A part from the H oopstad specim en there are tw o o th er m o u n ted pango lins in the collection o f the N ational Museum. N o in fo rm a tio n on their localities can be traced , how ever. The M useum also has one u n born y oung on display. This was o b tain ed from R hodesia a n u m b er o f years ago and d o n ated to the M useum by P rof. A. J . D. Meiring.
