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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 83, 10 April 1877, Page 2

Mr. A. Dihvorth, of Waitakcrei, has been ately very much annoyed by the depredations of hawks, by which hi s poultry and «°s3 have been decimated. He has tried poispp and praps X vijhbut {f ny gqod result, rind at .last was fairly at a loss how td stob the raids of the aerial thieves. Some time ago he read or heard tl w t there is an American bird of the eagle tribe which feeds entirely upon iiiJTh-Zlying bi n i Sj suc i, as , luwks and having ascertained (hat }± iulormation was correct, he sent to California two months ago for a .setting of the ease's et^s PHI f % dozen were forwarded by thcCity of Svdn.naiJ.l luivitig been taken charge of ]] y ;-,[,! .Morton Jones, were yesterday forwarded in good condition to Mv Dihvorth. Vv'e shall be pleased to hoar of the experiment turniii"oat successfully.— Auckland Star. ° The New Zetland Li eased Victuallers Gazelle of a recent date says.-— "A now American gasometer has lately beeu introduced to the New Zealand public. Mr Hepburn is natentop /or the colony, and it is claimed for the invention that spyen burners give a light equal to thirty "Corporation Jets, liic process of making the gas is sioiplo/and i can bo introduced at a rate of cost less than Cs per thousand feet. Jf this is correct the gas companies dividends will hardly be as large as of late years