General News.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3564, 24 August 1905, Page 3

General News.

A paragraph is going the rounds just now to the effect th ■t a retired Southland tanner, now living in Tirnaru, says he can remember wedl how thirty years ago fabbils were so scarce in Southland that fannersused to refrain from shooting them in the hope that if left alone for a time, they would provide good sport, “The retired farmer’s chronology is defective" (says the “ Southland Times ”); “he meant forty years ago. It is nigh on thirty years since the pest was first poisoned in Southland to get rid of it. It is forty years since the Provincial Government threw its :egis ovtr bunny, making it a punishable otfence to kill him. The rabbit was then confined to the area at the mouth of the New river, which lie speedily converted into the desert waste we see to-day.” The “ Times ” correspondent at Capetown reports that theo upreme Court upholds the content! n of the Income Tax Commissioner that the De Boers mine is liable for income tas on the profits made by a London syndicate of diamond buyers. Speaking at the fourth annual meeting recently of the South African Graves Fund Committee, Earl Roberts said that, visiting, last autumn, a Boer farmer at Driefontein. he was much struck by the neat and well-cared-for appearance of a small graveyard on the farm. It contained the graves of about twenty British soldiers, and Lord Roberts learned that the Boer farmer had fought against us, and had been deported for two years, but on returning he had looked after the graves of his fallen foes, considering it his duty to do so. The mails on a train on the Cowra-Blaynay branch line were mysteriously robbed on Tuesday.