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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 305, 20 June 1879, Page 3

An English paper has been I discovered in New : Zealand. /. No ; ,qountry wants it more. The-public debt -is. about twenty-two millions. It is, in fact,' "The Great Loan Land." A novel way to exterminate .rabbits,propounded by an experienced old band. At nightfall he nets some 20 or 30 holes according to the quantity of game" required. Then he extracts from a bag a liu< r e live crab and an inch of wax candle, and, lighting the latter, fixes it on : the crab's back with a little melted wax and turns the shell-fish loose down the most central hole in the warren. That crab always scuttles hastily down, imagining that he is returning to the bosom of his family; but every bunny bolts, and every net holds a rabbit within two minutes after his descent. Doubtless, by the curled-up conies, thinking over their supper and their sins, the illuminated shell-fish is considered a special emissary of Satan; but he generally re-appears arm-in-arm, so to speak, with a " party" he has hooked on to during the rush; crabs being of a social nature, -and not easily shaken oil. A contemporary, in speaking of a tradesman whose shop was lately burnt down, says he has been rather an extensive sufferer by fire since his arrival in the district, having been burnt out several times. The Bufferings may not be very severe. There is a general impression abroad now-a-days A: .!, vA .!! a man has been the " victim" iV.'rhru; --■> four fires he should be in a position io retire from business altogether. I Arvi.-A been requested to give an 'Ar»ifA rrs en the merits, validity, and so A;;Ai ' i.i t-te Hokitika Borough Council by- ];■*,-. a io-.al lawyer, according to a West (">vi*l paper. it as follows:—" Bor'r'='gh bv-hiwr:— Rot I Thundering Rot!.! ] - : . c Hoi I! i Unpardonable Eot!!.1 Stuir ! frightful Muddle! ! Dan*frwui Ignorance !!!"