THE RABBIT QUESTION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 711, 8 March 1881, Page 2

THE RABBIT QUESTION.

JTo the Editor of the Waibabapa Daily.] • _. Sib,—Your correspondent "Watchful." j is evidently in dense ignorance of this question. ■ It is quite palpable that j" he has : nbt . only never been in & | !' Copt of Justice" during the trial of a > rabbit case, but has- never 'even read a j report of one. The great test case re. cently.of "The Inspeptor v .Tuck," ;' proved '■■ without doubt'. .that, though nominally the Magistrate decides what are "efficient""steps, in reality he is merely .guided by the.' In'speptot. The Magistrate" lias no means of deciding what are -efficient steps, and must give weight to. the opinion, of the legally-appointed 'lnspector whose duty is lo know whetler . sufficient.stepß:have been taken, by any person to destroy the rabbits. In tho else I have quoted, the defendant proved tl|at I he had expended a large- .sum iu his offorts to exterminate the pest, and one of his witnesses—an English gamekeeper—' swore he considered the steps taken to be I efficient ones.-, Mr Tuok'had two wit- ' uesses-besides himself. 'The Inspector { had not one, yet his unsupported evidence • was.'suffioienfc to procure a verdict against :the.defendantr I considered that Mr:': .Tuck's .case''was" a one, .■ but at the same, time could not but admit that if each owner of laud were allowed ta adopt Such a plan as appeared to liim most convenient there would be no unity of.action, and no sustained effort, against the enemy maintained- ' : The sentence concerning the Inspector inflicting the fine himself is too absurd to say anything further of, Theonly feeling I have.in replying at all to "."WatonMl's" letter is'that the latter may possibly, through quoting the Act, persuade some unfortunate landowner to disregard the Inspector's notice, take his own measures, and think he ean successfully fight the Inspector when lie i is hauled up to Court for not taking j efficient'steps. I can assure "Watobful" I that if he is brought; before the E.M. by j the Inspector, and the' latter swears that i he has not taken ". efficient" stops to des- ;' troy rabbits ori his property, the Magis- j trate will have no alternative but to infliot ' a fine, unless it can be shewn that the In- \ spector bas'peijtfred himself. Itisto.be j hoped that," Watchful" will, in future, j scan the newspaper more closely, and not j write on subjects of which he is ignorant, i :'.' ;•'•': ■ -Yours, &c.,' IMPARTIAL.

• Hekwbcrkoeb o» vvßiuiwiHw;—lnthe year 1845 5 worthy citizen pioaded hia way with some difficulty through £em and ti-tree to Te Arb STat "baing in Bearoh of • the Burveyrt opegwhioh-had been driven in at the corner of what'ft now Cuba and Dixon streets,: .Upon'tliis spot was ereuted-a small house, in which'' a very successful drapery busihoss was carried on by two ladies of remarkable talent'-arid energy, have long aiuco retired from the scene to the land of their birth- '•"

• " Land 0"' the mountain and the flood, Land of brown heath and shaggy wood. In the year 1866 it passed into the bands of ; Mk'Ja3lKß SmTtb, fcho present proprietor, who gave to tho premises the nainb bf'Te Aro House, and under whose raanagomenf 'business; lias steadily pro* grassed with.t]ie rising, fortunes of the city, ' until- at length it was found, that.a considerable enlargement-was necessary, and the result'was,-Te'-Artf'House, as at present, .ono'of'tthe most'.ooinplete and Extensive Drapery Establishments in the colony 01 Now Zealand, .The: leneral Drapery occupies a largo space", being 49 foot by-25 feot, . amply 'sufficient for all Manchester goods, Fancy Dresse3, Silks, Gloves, Hosiery, Eibbons,.Laces ) &a, The Men's, Boy's, and ' Youths'' : Clothing Department measures 24 feet by 14 feet, and has attached,* comfort, -able fitting-room,-'. Carpets and furnishings havela similar space .allotted to them. The Show-room for the uleof Millinery, Mantles, Jackets, Costumes, Sie.', is a very spacious apartment, elegantly' fitted up, and beautifully lighted from the and measures 39 feet.by 32feet • The stock '"* of goods sat all Junes large-and well selected, and patterns are ;fprward6d'posi .free on application,. A special feature at Te AroHouseisthejOrder Department, and very careful attention is paid ;to the wants of Country Residents. Allorders are executed under the immediate supervision of the proprietor, and securely packedand -forwarded to their destination with that promptness :aud,dospatflh-.wbioh have always ..distin guisbed Te,ArpHouse,.Cubii:Btree( Welling on.—LtpvTil ;;.*•■