MAORI HILL.

Evening Star, Issue 3608, 15 September 1874, Page 3

MAORI HILL.

To the Editor. SIR, —I observed in your issue of Saturday night, among other notices «>f motions to come before the next raeet'ng of the City Council, that of Councillor Gihsou, to have the scrub removed from the hill above Forth Place to Murrayville, and cut up. Now, I and hundreds more, who live in that locality, consider this rather a bold stroke. Ibe hill is sadly too bare already, and the low foliage, when contrasted with the higher bush in the glens below, forms a very pleasing feature in the surroundings of that neighborhood : besides its value as regards shelter and ornament, it is a first-class hunting ground for botanists, 'i here are located there a great variety of ferns and other native plants and shrubs, of the latter several varieties of the mistletoe Ala’-’y of your readei s no doubt know tha-. small family of hardy evergreens, called the ruscus or butcher’s broom, and although tough and Strong some »f them are, yet they wou’d all fail to make such a cle m sweep as that which Mr Gibson purposes to have done.—l am, &0.,

Morkpork, alias The Owl. F.S—Please lend a hand to “spare the trees,” it is one of my preserves for mousing.