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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 16, 22 April 1867, Page 94

Pjiintkk’s Bdukdkk. —By the substitution of an “f” for an “1," a newspaper paragraph was made to say that the Rev. Mr r had received a calf from Maine, to be settled over a Congregational church at Portland.

Contradiction. Sidney Smith said that a certain pu-raon was so fond of contradiction that he would throw up the window in the middle of the night, and contradict the watchman who was calling the hour.

Destutjction or Hawes. —A gertieman, calling at our office yesterday evening, c®mmunieated to us a mode of which lie has succeeded in killing a large number of hawks. Now that the Acclimatisation Society has offered one shilling per head for every dead hawk, it may even still more be worth the while of some of our country settler# to try the plan. Gum-diggers, indeed, might do so too while they are engaged at their employment of digging Set up a pole, as high a one as you can, with a small piece of wood on the top, having, a. hollow in the surface of it, so.as to hold an egg steadily. Before placing the egg there, a small hole must be made in the shell, and a little strychnine introduced. A piece of paper is pasted over the hole in the shell and the poison soon, becomes diffused through the egg. It will not be long before the egg. is seen by a hawk, which swoops down upon it at once, sucks the egg, and drops.down d ad at the foot of the pole. A fresh egg is poisoned and placed on the board, another hawk -killed,, and so on.—New Zealand Herald.