THE INTRODUCTION OF SPARROWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1471, 23 February 1885, Page 3

THE INTRODUCTION OF SPARROWS.

' At a recent meeting of the (Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, the Chairman (the Hon I. T. Peaoocs) stated that sparrows had not been imported to the colony by the Society, but that the progenitors of the myilads which now •devastate' our haivest fields were five birds introduced and liberated by a sea captain, from whcm the Society had declined to purchase the. birds. The Waimate Times is not satisfied with this statement, and says :—“ The writer of this present article was a resident of Christchurch from September, 1862, to June, 1867, sod well remembers the' arrival at Lyttelton between. these dates' r (probably in 1863 or 1864) of a ship (he it was named the Marlborough),

the manifest.of which wee as usual puo-1 lished in the morning papers, and from I which it appeared that she hadbrought I oat a lot of English birds, among which I were chaffinches, greenfinches, and either I 100 or 200 sparrows. Knowing what I ailachief these birds did in the English I agrlenUttral districts, the Writer drew I the attention of Mr George Tribe, then! " editor of an evening paper in Christchurch, to t)>6 matter, and at the request of that gentleman wrote an article, which was published in the Mail, warning the public of Km-’danger of turning these birds loose ioNew Zealand, and predicting.: that if this - were done legislation WOttld ere tong he needed to .cope with the evil# which Would result. That prediotion, it is needless to say, has been verified, end the facta just given clearly show that the five libtris referred to by Mr Peadock by no means account for the origin of *he, sparrow nuisance, thongh no aoobt they had their share in it We do soy Positively that the Society turned out the sparrows which arrived by tiie Marlborough (if that was her name), but we have a strong impression that they did, or at least that they were liberated under the auspices of the Society—was it by Mr F»rr, we'wonder? Well, it is neatly a quarter of a century ago, and , It is hard fb recollect precisely, but any- - Jjodywbo is, curious to enquire can, by following up the thread we have given, very easily ascertain.

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