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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 87, 16 March 1885, Page 4

iA. Plea for tlie Sparrows. j> f iK,- ,-;;»■/, ;;,;>. T ' The farmers m many parts of the cpl'ony have (looked upo]n the intror ductioniof sparrows as'rather a curs<f a blessing. In America, .. also,,' ' tjhe English sparrow?, has,, many detractors, but the following paragraph from the Philadelphia Ledger will show that he has also some. friends : — "Your theoriss claim, that, the sparrow is j driving away i all other birds and destroying: our fruits and flowers wholesale. Reasoning from these theories,, England plight to be a (barren' waste, from ,end to end instead of being a perfect , garden, as Horace Grcely descri]bed ( ;t,' an.d it pught to have no other bircl Jbut the sparrow, w.hereas i the wopds and forosts iof ,'Epgland are teeming; with sweet-singing bir.cls— -the thrusti, the linnet^ the ; robin;, the. skylark, the nightingale, ard a ...hpst/^pf others that we read not of except m, poetry. Wiwle J ; have .always , been a factory worker, and am Qne. still,, | r have cultivated a garden m England, an^ m several States. :n \n y the , qountry-— in New Jersey.jj^n jiyiajne, m ■vania, and m Mary^ndL, . i -irC] England the sparrow^aid itwp-tnij;ds, of 'the work m keeping ;my '■■ plants, [fruits, and vegetabjle§;free ffom- ; in■sects. In this country; for.. want of jthe spftFr<jw V) '{,]bad to,,dp, it'iall^myJsel^.- :i XHe..r^ult cpijld projdude^SimucJi.ftnja fo/i' of ground m . i England as I coujd^get frpjiij -three Irods m this country, .in any pf the Ifpnr Spate's 'ifairied. : AhyohiG' who I has liv,edjijb,oth countries and tried lit can^yr~ine-put in'this^don't protect;your > seed: m early spring, before insect life is develop- ; edy 'the sparrow will 'dat '< soineAof ie j But wh'en ; the 1 plants, come- up the : sparrfpw! isjalways huntipg'for' irtStfcts. i If he; digs a hole m your- strawberry i cjependj.uppn it he is a^iter the' grub that has |taken lodgings 'there. He does, not icafe; half so muc^i for your j fruit afc: he does for the insect des- j trowing' ! iti; instead of (/being an enemy the sparrow is one pf your bestfWends*"' ,;,>:■<.

f j l - : — — - I ; ■'■yhe. State '6f ' 'M^iner' ; has ' fen) quoted so 6fteii*of latej. that it 'iyas; with considerable surjirise w,e ; read; an article m "tn'e' Auckland %k-\ Xr,ac^i^g, ftp,m r Jjl^e '., l^.ew V qrk Sun, of: wiiich tbe^p^pjwjin^ are, \. some very! short extracts :— 'ViXhe^minal refcordf of.the. -Staiejfor the. past year is not an agreeable; one,.,, tp cbntemplate. There- have been 1,145 1 criminal prosecutions such as. A'avci fdquifed 't^ie; f'attefntibn.-: of- couriiyi j 'ktttitneyii. " ' Ekcljisiye'of ' l ; all * prosi secii'tioris 'for vioMtfroVof the « liqaoil ,'^ws; anU : no'tf Icb'iintin^'auy 1 prtfsgcki; lion's fn^.pcsiVtour:isi there has' b'e'erj ( pne, jCriminai proiec'utioii' to 1 ' f^P^d', mn'asitan^s', ,o|j^^e'' .^tate f jjleyen persons have j^een! pj'osecntj,&d iforJiiiliftg,|eUow beb^'s^^n^.four '.mfeniajnid pne.Fpnftan, 'fcp fle^u^r 1 teneed.itO:; death.';', . ,^The ;<hjM;? ( , f Hpi i details pf.the 4 si3 crimes, after which it, says ,:ttt" 1t... ij3 a fact worth noticing that, althonglji M'aihe'Hs I < the leading i i^atcs #f t^lJnioix, mostpf the rauif ders committed m the State ■' wichiji the past 10' years' -may be fairly charged to"the ; excessive i^efof iri-^ toxicating liqnors. Five of thb murderers berW:;raentiojgeilfi^rje '^nde^thb influence ,5f liquorrfwheh "theiir^crimes were committed. >lj:iquqr r ; 'it )fsi'called- irl Maine^ but m faci/ \t ' 'Wk lyile, jjpispnoUscPncoiconv^wit ''damination'; tjiat cPsts frpm ! af'jdwHar to a J c(blla : i ''and a 1 qnarter J ip'er"gaUoi t and is sold to, thip.cpnpmer for from." , six to, eight ! dollars' ' a gallon. }t ' 'doesn^t tate 1 agreat qaarltityof : it to, • mak6'a''^aii^ ' man' ; craky. w ! Mairie" \ is 'increaJiri^ lH' prosjierify r the ' ■ &tin . „say^,l)u,t;pwin^.to the,, ftfeihe Cen- 1 r 'tral' Railway, ai^d to the feiii&wfe'd enmen generrally "and'npt.tp |^he"prp~hibition~laws, : Jjicreafee . imcarime^Qrje than^eegsp^ce^wiih that m population and wealtn. j.t 1 is's^tb Wd m d ne!w4>at)er;printed the littre«'tb^ir J 6fi'Machais a iequestsigne.4,by one thousand earnest 'men"' s ana "^omatf *'wnic'li -^ redds jas [ -follows : — X&fis 'request is made tin 1 fehalf of 1 i!iie ; boys' und^^ ? of f^chjas,some of wj;om are yesp^tiflg to_ strong ari^K> ( greatly jto .s?s perspn^l'i ; nj j uryVa's ; 'Yeir ais Jto the deep-' 'sorrow 1 s of tfar'ehts 'afadi Yrie^s^Tery ! .inany 'th'e^fc* > S p^W^6sii.Z pjm Ja^e fres»§btfeiU[v askpd \6, feAff'mtbfpS tjhe ■. hraifspf Machia^.' .MacniaW ' fs{ a ' t qu^t 1 ' 'inhabitpai&i hatf rural' ,anft ' half' niarittme. \T^e ; pr^ibi^c)ry ; law hii^'be^cfn the . statuej : mo^; th'ati'tnirfy and clufing all t'n : at"'time ilfrerb' 1 ' na's^ been an attempt to' irif6r'ce v^t • irt Mach'ia's! ' StSll drurilietirtdss increase \ es and 'wotde ' crimdsi follow. '|'he mbdernibiu'lt gaol,. oqe,- pf/the ar fchi't(jdtiiraivorname»t's.f pf the town, /di'a'ws nearly. >all .its ; p,ccupants from army of drunjken 'meii' arid- women.' And what is true of Machos is 1 true; of scores of other l !itt>Mfainb.^n -.ij j

TqS' following' 's wry reaches^ us frorn\ : ;GoiiWglridt, '> Cobcr: —^ome t! iweive iriohtWsTor soagp^ Boniface ;f Wh6' 'haiW frdßfi that vicinity paid a : visit' to 1 s Melbourne »for the purpose 'of 1 i his stores |with ; Wara«nheip , gin and^ whisky. Dur, 'inghiSMev.ening. peramb.ulations ih' Lthe city^ the, v &o,l l >u ; ng publican struck pup'jAaii Kacquajix^ance with i M.x r - i A/trr-^^a/Cqininfrcial travelleif fyr S. and 8., softgoods warehouseben.; The •' atcqiiiaintaniee V( - ripened : into friendship, a,nd when the friendsj were ' jbi^jng e .ach , other adieu ovjgr.'.ia couple .of%otdes of ,'Modt, thej Goh a hearty iiivitalion to his friend tlie bagman sjiould ho ever pay a visit to his locality. | 'Titne r&Hedp.n^an^l bnisngss pursuits I t«¥»K\(it)ic, coninjcrcial ''traveller to ! iwiifcr (i^ty "^iTr^iltS ',^of . . Gb-biing.' 'riUhitoking nothing of the' dista'nee, '- bu4);QUi^^with hope and gladness at the #mi&s!fif,.,wft t wh ar ? '*■ friend, he invited two tieighlponhg' .^quatters to share, iji/»^ trap and accompany hira on a visit to the