TELEGRAPHIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1472, 1 September 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

Press Association,

THE BABBIT QUESTION IN

HAWKES BAY

Napier, Angust 31, A very large meeting of sheepfarmers was held yesterday to receive the rereports of Committees appointed by the sottlers in Hawkes Bay and Waipawa counties in reference to the approaching invasion of the rabbit plague Tho report states that the rabbits are on the immediate boundary of the province northward of the Akiteo river, and recommend the erection of a rabbit-proof fence from the coast running inland for fifteen miles towards Woodville, in the Seventy-mile Bush Anotherreport recommended adifferent direction offence, and condemned the line of the artificial boundary between Wellington and Hawkes Bay provincial district. The estimated cost of the fence is £3OOO. Sheepfarmers representing.a million and a quarter of sheep have agreed to pay a farthing a head to defray the cost. All the sheepowners in this district will be asked to

contribute. TheHawkes Bay members to communicate with .a; view;to securing assistance.

. ,;:;•' Auckland,-Saturday. The brigantine Clansman, about the safty of which fears were entertained arrived from Eyttelton. She experienced.a succession of gales and the decks were swept by enormous seas. She arrived in a battered condition..