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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1040, 22 June 1883, Page 3

Volunteers are reminded that Wednesday and Thursday nights next are inspection parades. At the Committee meeting of the Patea Rifles, it was decided that the three silver trophies should be competed for by the three different classes. The first of the competitions comes off next month. The entertainment in aid of the Kakaramca Town Hall Fund, came off very successfully last night. It has been supposed that foxes, which are already becoming numerous in some parts of the colony of Victoria, would be useful in keeping the rabbit pest in cheek, but they are proving to be, if possible, a greater pest, and many complaints are coming in of their depredations on poultry and young lambs, numbers of the latter having been destroyed by them ; the lambs are found in the mornings dead, with their throats gashed, as if their murderers had been satisfied with sucking their blood. A man without arms was brought up at Geelong a short while since, charged by his wife with using threatening language. She said she was afraid of her life and for her children, and often had to sit up- all night to protect the latter from accused. He attacked them with his teeth.