BUNNY TURNED TO ACCOUNT.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1050, 18 March 1882, Page 4

BUNNY TURNED TO ACCOUNT.

The abundant rabbit of the South has at last found his proper sphere. The Southland News, treating of him, says : Persons prepared to undertake the trapping and snaring of rabbits are elsewhere requested to communicate with the manager of the New Zealand Meat Preserving Company, who have decided to open the works at Woodlands for a time. Last year the Company had about 100,000 rabbits forwarded, and it is reported that “ bunny ” in his preserved form, has given so much satisfaction at Home, that they have now made arrangements . to receive a much larger quantity. As i an example of the extent of the “ industry ” it may be mentioned that by the time 100.000 rabbits are prepared and ready for shipment a sum of £l,OOO will have been spent locally, whereas if only the skins were to be made use of not more than one-third of that amount would be left in the Colony. The company arc prepared to receive 10,000 rabbits per day, but even if they only get half that number they will be enabled to give employment at the works to over 100 men, and an equal number will probably be. engaged in trapping. It is to be hoped I that the company will receive ample supplies, and so be enabled to carry on a work that will absorb a large amount of labor.

a Berlin correspondent mentions a storv of a whole Russian garrison rison beinn attacked with a disease very much resembling cholera. On the mat ter being inq ui red i n to. the epidernic was traced to the food with which the unfortunate soldiers were supplied by their colonel. The bread was so bad that a dog which ate some of it in half-an-hour showed symptoms of having been poisoned.