Local and General

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 October 1912, Page 2

Local and General

Tli<! snowstorm at I-i'vin on Saturdiiy was the lir.st experienced here during the last twelve .years. The whole: countryside was cove-red with a white sheet from the hilltops to tlu , sea. A Gladstone road .settler informs us that the last fall of snow in Levin was on the 3r<l August, 1001. A settler near Pleasant Point a lew days ago caught a wild cat in a trap wliidi he had set for a rabbit (says the Tiniarii Herald). He killed all< 1 skinned it. and when skinning it i'ound that it had been caught in a miuv some time or other, as the wire loop was .still round its body. The wire had worked its way right through the skin of the hack, and also through a good portion of the flesh, in such a position that the loop knot was just above the rat's tail, where it had sunkdee]) into its flesh on both side.s of the backbone. The skin was completely knitted together and healed where the wire had passed through. Hunting is a famous sport, for those engaged in it, but some of the fanners in the Gerakline. district are looking on the sport just now with anything hut favour. It appears that one of the hounds belonging to the South Canterbury Hunt escaped from tlio kennels recently, and has boon celebrating its liberty by offering sacrifice of young lamhs on a- wholesale scale. (t is said tlint some twenty lambs have been killed nightly by the animal, ft is also solemnly asserted that « "new chum" who was driving a cart in which a owe and two or three j lambs had been placed saw the hound making towards him, and, feeling it necessary to appease the animal, ho threw out one of "the lamhs, and drove off. well satisfied, apparently, to have got aw.ny with the remainder of his load. On Thursday Inst, .several young men. armed with guns, hunted the hound, but it escaped among the scrub of the riverbed. Save your roses and other plants by spraying them with Cirenpol" which destroys green fly and various other pests. Non-noisonous and most effective. A. shilling tube will make 20 gallons in a few minutes. Obtainable from C. S. Keedwell's Pharmacy.