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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1536, 18 August 1905, Page 3

While opening a tin of fish with an Ordinary tin - opener, Mr Thomas Merson, of Carterton, met with a very painful accident. In cutting round one of the corners of the tin the opener slipped, and nearly severed the thumb off his left hand. Farmers will agree with the follow-, ing, from the Free Lance:—The country would be in a position to bless itself if it allowed everybody with a gun to go out and shoot every foreign j animal now in the colony. There will come a day when the domestic animal ■will have to scratch hard for a living, and. the people will ask who was responsible for the folly of introducing pests. We have ferrets, stoats, weasels, racoons, wapiti, moose, elk, and about a dozen other kinds of deer. We have foreign small birds, foreign rats, and very few native birds. Why not a herd of buffaloes, and a few snakes, tarantulas, and scorpions'? It ■would assist to remind the blase tourist of Australia or America, or Africa, which, after all, is what seem to strive for.—Lance.. . To use the words of an Australian statesman : “ The Privy Council, as a Court of Appeal for the colonies, is an anachronism and an absurdity,” and -we hope the day is not far distant when the decisions of oup own Court of Appeal on all matters v . of New Zealand law brought _ before them yvill be final and conclusive, —Dunedin Star.

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