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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 232, 1 October 1877, Page 2

Sometimes (says the Auckland Star) the capture of a single kiwi is chronicled as an occurrence to be noted. These rare birds must be pretty plentiful in the neighborhood of Aotea, when in one week a lad living with Mr Charles McDonald, at Raupeke, taking his dog to fetch in his bullocks, brought home seven kiwis and four eggs. Mrs McDonald, seeing one of the eggs near hatching, put it in tha oven, wheu a young kiwi soon made ita exit from the shell, and seemed perfectly at home. !^A little girl, sent out to hunt for eggs, came back unsucessfully, complaining that, "lots of hens were standing around doing nothing." That is exactly the difficulty. It is the general trouble all over the world that hens are " standing around doiug nothing." Oh, the eggs that are never laid and might be I So many hopes and plans and schemes of improvement 1 So many inventions 1 So many good works! Such reformations and movements ! So much to be done, and yet so many " hens standing around doiug nothing."