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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 92, 20 April 1877, Page 4

The Olayo Guardian has fhe follow "my '• — A corretipoudriat has kiuily flvUt U8 1-I*B lollowuiti tx-rwct i*om *tt >Suu F-ajH*.* 8 -" 0 p u per. tu be published for the brn^i oi raobit-stricken ruoholdera : — •*' Han Franciaco, January 30, 1877- Messrs; Murray, Roberte, and Co. Gfentiemeo,^ — As rabbits are euch a peat in New Zjaland", lhe lollowing mixture for poisoning ; 4/je.m may be useful: 'Mr -Soatbergiv.es the

Kern Courier- Cai if ornian the followj* ing mixture for poisoning rabbits: To one hundred pints of wheat, take nine gallons of water, one pouad of phoa;phorup, one pound of sugar, and onb ounce of rhodium. Heat the water to boiling point, and let it etand all night. ■ £*•>)£<( pornipg ally, in fl^t [s^ci^n 1 1 tb make a aort of paste. Ttie rabbits "eat it with avidity,, and thousands ere being killed on Kern island every : v { v;v* iV: ■■.-.; - :jr; --. -7 * ] An English paper relates the follow- • sib^f istoryiof .keen . bidding i oAO certain East London Jewish firm had received a commission from Birmingbaakta sell a batch of 150,000 Snidera. Tbe othe^ day a stout, foreign -looking, i^vicjaaji called, saw the patterns arid ' agreed to ; buy the firhph\ Jot at ascertain price. His offer was accepted add he went away,. agreei.qg^tp call,. .next day, pay the deposit and conolaiy the affair. An hout or two after he left, another persoa, also a foreigner, called and :c_We*d in advance ; nearly 20 per centj. a pon the price agreed on by the first purchaser/ "'The If Hebtbw said he did not feel bound to sell to any one who had not-paid a deposit, and that if purchaser number two, paid his deposit - the 'm-hikets would be hia. Number two went away saying he would be back again in an hour add bring with him the deposit money required. He had hardly left the counting* ihoaio when 8 third party put in an appearance, offering more by nearly 10 per cent, than number twoj apdirapre -;by, : ;3p per ceo£ than number one. Moreover, he ■brought wiib.hitn in bank notes a conr eiderable sum, which be paid down ak a deposit. The, arms were then said to be his, and the usual sale note duly made jOut. It afterwards, .turned .put that all lhe three purchasers were agents :of/brokers for the.same Arm, and that in . ..their .e.agerpsßS to obtain their commis- ' aibn tbey had been bidding 'against . each- othor^ • -The. arms, with; 30,Q0p more of tbe same description purchased - itft Birtbidgham, have since be^shippe-il off for Siberia via one of the Russian ports in the Blatk sea. ■•-'■■■>•<':',-> * Another railway, accident (says theLyttelton Times) occurred in theNortn ou- Saturday, 3*Jer6er 7 lin^ rT wheb ft-v-Jowh. train' is 6tatedi'''.tQ.i : have.run; info aod killedj a number of cattle. "Thje train,??' says^h*^ telegram,-, off thie line,'; feut l fid^aH*lebge , fi7*wlr'e injured and jir, was restored to the lice anil pro(:eedfidrbnVa*Jt(-r.7fialf Wd hour's del** * I -**y." It is, of course, very pleasant tja know that no passeuger were iojured, although the pleasure is somewhat ■lashed by the uflt-ction that the cattle owner can hardly be pleased with the accident, and that the cattle probably liked it still less. There is uo kind of doubt that as a means of inj--Btantaneou9ly butchering cattle r*ntl sheep th 3 un fenced railways of New 'Zealand are a grand success. •■ But: as . ye?ch pperatipp pi this ? k ind ;■ iovolveis imminejq.t.:peril-tQ^seve.i*aJ;personß^ it is perhaps pardonable to think that tl\e' Bport,is hardly worth the'; risk*:' TQf course in expressing Such an opinion we lay purseiyea open tp.the accusation pf.^jqamby-pamty sentimentalism,'! At that elegput phrase is interpreted by contemporaries, parti.cularlly by th*o admirers of *-the gen tie Turks. It : would appear from the passage we have, cited, as if the. people -of ,Auck!au'<i were growing to regard accidents of this nature aa one of the bleaaings of a progressive age. The occurrence is re- • lated in Bueh a very off-hand, -da^te'tr-of-fact.manner,, .that it is .clear it was thought of very little importance. Moreover, the account; seems stamped with a kind cf vague' and scarcely definable sorrow, the sigh of ia- reporter seeking sensations, and finding that no passengers yvisre ipjured, and that the )train. was restor ed to ' the* line g-ltpost immediately. There : ceritainly,^. is ja ;. great .sameness about these , narratives, and the -Government, 'although ihey may not be prepared to hurry on the series of " big things" in the way pf accidents towards . which thay are working up,, steadily,, -should at least introduce a sufitoient variety to render the accounts interesting. > ■ *'J — I-i .1 . .— _JLl_! ! iXX-b*