MR C. R. CARTER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 957, 23 December 1881, Page 2

MR C. R. CARTER.

[To the Editor of the Daily.]

Sic,—A few words about Mr Cartar and the rabbits,

I think Mr Hecthaiu's evidence, :is far us I have been informed about Mr On let being the first In introduce rabbits into the Wairarapa, is correct, Jdo not think it right of Mr Cuter In try ami shift ii on tn other shoulders now lie sees ihe folly ~f it, Mr Cuter can not he a fur seeing man; or olso ho ivoiild have seen what a curse the rabbit would becnine in a country like Ni:\v Zi'alanil, uncultivated and nliiinHt in its tnitnriil stile at tint time. • In my iiiiiniiui iho rabbits'ini'ie'iso here as fast again aa thoy do in thoOhl C»iiiitn' ( and ihey are had enough Ihore, which Mr Garter ought In have known. A fine immiumtinn sis,ept hn has made for vermin, And nruv tvhal duos ho do/ Instead of hn!|'iiit» us to eel rid of iheni a-irn lie clears out. spends his lime and mono^—'he hitter which he had made in 'he Provin.'o i.f Wi'llim/lnn -in travolliii", slid lets his land Inv idle on llin Taralahi', n hicod'ng iiri.uiid fur rnliiiU Mr Carter says it will cost him I'lftf gelling sueli vermin here. I' will (mat us many llipnissuils in eoltin:.' ii>' nf ihoni ai.'sin, A far-seeing man Mr Carter tnust he 1 Then, about the introduction of red deer Mr Csrfer has not been ii,'lillv informed. There wore shipped in 1812. from S|; C-it'ierine's Dock, Lmdon, a few days after the funeral nf the Into Prince Consort, six deer; of that number five arrived in 'Wnllinytmi—one died on Die vnyagomit' Thev did nut come in the "Triton j" they oamo ill the barque " Toarghien Cristian," a German vessel. That vessel arrived here about the same time as I lie "Triton," hence Mr Garfer's mistake. I simtilv stale tin's tn gay thai, as Mr Carter made a mistake about the red deer, he has, no doubt, made a mistake aboil the first inan that, let the rabbits so at larsro If Mr Carter ever comes hack to New Zealand, ho nmjht tn he presented wjth a pair nf rabbits, with the inscription on them H Doing good bears interest," Yours faithfully, Taralahi, F.M,