DOMINION ITEMS.
[BT TF.r.EfiBAPH —rER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] THE I!AMBIT I’F'.ST. A I CELAND. November 22. .Some- parts of the I’iako district arc infested with rabbits, but farmers realise the danger of the pest spread in.*: and are taking means to combat it. It was decided at n mooting of the larmcvs held at Kiwitaiii to form a Babbit I'onid, it being suggested that the area include 20 000 acres, so as to clean tfp the whole of the I’iako Valley. Some interesting correspondence was if ad on the. .subject of forming Babbit Hoards. The secretary of one such body in response to a finery whether the Hoards wen- an unqualified success stated: ‘‘.Nothing is an unqualified success v-li re rabbits arc con'-.c-ae 1 ( Xrent their ability to multiply.” Another communication sta'id 1* a 1 v. In n iiin Board was formed four years age there was gieat opposition, lint now ii v. ns gieat.ly a pprci in ted. The meeting was addressed bv Messrs Barngh and Alexander, stock inspectors. and though theso gentlemen were given ati attentive hearing, there was considerable opposition, one farmer i oriieuding that he laid cleared his propeit v of l'alilcr- and did not. see Aby l-e should help to pay lor his neighbour to rleon ids projicrly. [I the isdi. hit inspectors did tlmir work a id cimt ii. nod to .summon olieiitiers, offenders would find it less easily to clear rabbits. |t was onlv Ihroiigb neglect -'Hid caro-li's-ic’-ss that raid,'its had got a bid in th,. district al. all. It ha- stated -.hat a rate of Id per acre with a Goccrnnicnt subsidy of a similar amcuiit ViMild in- sufficient to exterminate the i abides. One speaker said that the sy-.’.cm o! having inspectors to tell far ale's to hill on: rabbits was absolutely ridi.edeu.s. It was just the same as tilling a fanner lie must milk bis cows or shear bis sheep. It was decided by a small majority to form a Rabbit Board. I«'ROODS IX PANAMA CANAL. ,v i'ClvbAN D, Nov. 20. An unusual cx|:erionce befel the steamer Pity of Naples, which arrived at Auckland liom N<'W \ oi k last i veiling The vessel was delayed at I nirinta [or two days by llcmls ,u the (anal, the first ,-itice the canal was -i[n'iu"l In traffic, nearly ten veals age. In laid, the danger lea red in the put was t 'at liltle would he a .shortage of water ui t l '.; taiial to llotlt very drop dr.ilight vessels. Before the City of Naples arrived at Colon from New V-jrk a month's heavy rain lino ■ -.uise.l the river (liavris to become Hooded and largo volumes of water flowed into Lake Chitlin. The liver, overflowing its hanks, washed large quantities of trees, its weil as a number of houses away and (‘low lied a large number of cattle, i lie debris found its way into the lake.
where it became a menace to navigation. A lurthcr danger to \ e.-aHs lie cot iating the lake was a 11-knot cur. lent, caused by the lined, tine v e -e]. the American oil tanker. Agvvistonc. was driven ashore hi the current. There was siteli a huge volume of water in the lakes that there was danger of the jocks and :la> machinery houses icing flooded To keep the water in the lake., at the minimi level, the overflow is carried away Duong!, culverts under the leeks. When a vessel is ".a vking the locks, the culvert is closed fi r ih• - rii.H living. Ti... u.'ce--ity i.l kee; iug she .-ulvorls open -it tie time to |.t event the Ict-ks -cl flow i • •;; I at'.-ed a delay In shipping. In tllii.i da\overall large vessels wen d-'hivd between (olon nnd Bullion. Amd her 1-mm‘kahie feature iu ioii-pe-vion ", itli ill*, flood vas the huge unmoor v! alligators • ecu swimming in tile j.ikc.-.. There ate usually few. cud Die pili l vvh i . '.‘dated the ( ii.v of Naples through i!iv com! .-laud that i. nil large inmheis had net '‘ten seen in id. lake I -foe . MOTOR CYCLIST'S MISTAKE. CIIRISTI rICRCiI, Nov. 2Y. George Bernard (amdell B.arndmi.
aged I i.l, of I.invv outl, was killed at New Brighton last night as the result of a head-on collision with a tramcar. Hamden was riding a motor cycle, which lie had obtained only on Saturday morning. Near the T’icr, he was travelling between Irani lines, ami apparently he thought be could pa -s a motor van which was standing on the correct side of the road, with light attached, before an approaching tram could reach him. His calculations proved wrong, for he rail directly into the lighted lamps of the tramcar, and was ‘allied 27 yards before the car pulled up. He lived only a few minutes.
SHODDY FOOTWEAR. A FC'KLAND. Nov. 2d. Replying to a deputation, who asked the Government to check importations of shoddy footwear, the Hon D. Stewart expressed sympathy with the object in view. He said tin* matter was one, primarily, for the consideration of the Minister of Labour with whom he would confer on the matter. The Customs Department could only come in by carrying out any further amendments to the regulations. t ENT ENA RIAN DIE,'!. K.UKOFRA. Nov. 2(1. The death occurred at the Kuikottra Hospital to-day of Mr Harry Evans (more familiarly known ill the Kaikoura district as “Harry the Soldier”). aged 101 years, ife served in the Crimean 'War, and the Indian Mutiny. He (ante to New Zealand with the o-l th. Regiment, and took' part in the Maori Wars. .
c.mooo SCHEME. GISBORNE. Nov. 26. The Harbour Board to-day rejected a propo.-al to divert the Waimata River through Haiti, and approved of the carrying out of the inner section of the harbour works, recently approved. This means that the river will he diverted near its mouth, on the Waikanae side, and that the new harbour will be developed, Jo feet deep t low water, along the Haiti side of the present harbour. No new outer breakwater is included in this scheme.
The cost is estimated tit five hundred thousand sterling. T
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