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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1619, 27 January 1886, Page 2

' £ Curibus " 'Wftey to o 'ihe/» (Papanui; Ctiuriei' ''it's, follows '.•^•l* do c '• ■ not : ■ knk) w j wWe^ierthfeMAii'Hdwrafd'who'hrfs 'caused .» the* f 't3timner mys't'efcy ;•* is" remembered aboutfTa'pahui; though 1 He was e&iplby'efcl' a considerable time at the late Glerikenich' mills, 'a'hd . more recently at ; the ; TaDaniii flour mills ! boiler repairing. His history* is 1 ' ratHer romantic, ; he' i hiaving / been an American oil speculator and' a Calif or»iSn : J4ige:er, ; whfiir^ he Ibst t)art of' a % thuuaB '•'■ m: about a claitri; He • slarttd; on; his 'wiy to Indta v to go into engineering, 'arid was shipwrecked on the vpyag'e. 1 He was, however, picked ; up by! a ! whaler '■' 'going, ltd' Greenlandy where Ihe scent a season, He 7 oatne i tti! New Zealand fully ten yearg ajo, and got sooie' iqoney from his oil shares,- and ' wen^ a ; thp with bis ! wife and family round the world, Visiting Melbourne' and ; Sydney Exhibitions.- Mofe" recently he< was sawmill manager m Fijiv • ,v,;. The ' settlers throughout the Gifttha Leader) are now. gating.* some' p'raccibal eicp'enence : of the~ effec^B-pf ferrets having been turned put m iEheir h'eigfob6'rh6od., ( One m the Pue--rua distribt has^hadioyer^O ypurig ducks destroyed m the course of ' three' weeks,, Ten were discovered, lying ,m a ! heap dead last Sunday .. night. Each had';,a small puncture' below the wing; , The flesh and feathers were. left 'intact! :but, the blood wjas gone. The^ferrets, are very imDuddnt^ and ; sodn Vfind ' but the pigs' troughs, ! whet:e they' shaf e' 'the' milkr with the pigs, of the; vermin have been trapped , and destroyed, but " it is " feared' that' they 'will be much worse t6 gee rid of .than the rabbits, which still are very numerous, and rapidly ; ihcreas-' ing,. i:.-J '•-:;? ', ;« -„ --j •..::.•„■;,.;.{