The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 13 1887. RABBITS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2571, 13 April 1887, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 13 1887. RABBITS.

The main feature of our Easter holiday celebration in this- district has been the slaughtor of rabbits. Hundreds of shootists have scoured the country round Masterton, and thousands of rabbits have been slain, We heard of one. party who despatched over two hundred of the pest, and left : that number of healthy edible carcases to rot on the hill sides. Almost everybody we believe who went rabbit shooting were successful excopting two visitors from Wellington, who imagined that a bush within'a couple of hundred yards of Queen-street was a likely spot for game. For once ral> bits have earned a good name by furnishing a popular and healthy sport to a-largo number of town residents and city visitors, but we fear that the number reported to bo killed-indicate that at tho present time tho post.js spreading somewhat rapidly in this district. One gentleman from town, delighted with the numbor of rabbits, which came across his path in a day's march oxpressod a profound conviction that th'o''duty of tho Inspectors in this district was limited to protecting tho rabbit. It is unsatisfactory to discover that after tons of thousands of pounds have been spent in destroying the pest and hundreds of settlers have been fined for allowing rabbits to increaso that this district still swarms, with them to that extont that scores of shooting parties can. kill them' by tho thousand in all directions. What the Babbit Department are about wo do not know, but apparently tho genial Mr Buckley, who presides over it has been permitting his army of Inspectors and Sub-inspectors to lako things easily latterly. As far as wo are aware in weather, like that wo have had for the past few months efficient poisoning operations liavo been practicable. It is an uttor absurdity to find, after some ton years warfare with the rabbits that' they should be as plentiful as they appear to be at present.

Tlio monthly meeting of the Maisfatoii Hospital trustees takes place to-morrow afternoon at the Institute. The crickot match Wellington versus Hawlw Bay waa won by the former in one innings and 102 runs to spare. The Hcoroß worn Wellington 350,(Hoenan not out 14fi) Hawkoa Buy 16-t m.d 81.

At tho R.M. Court, Carterton, on Tuesday, before Messrs Boys and Booth, J.IYb, Gcnvifc Vickerstaff, who was taken to Carterton by tho previous evening's train from Mastcrton, was charged with deserting his wife and child, and was remanded to tho 19th April, bail boing allowed in two sureties of £lO each, and one for himeolf at £25.

Tho natives at Auckland havo consented to the post mof'tjii on the bodies of Hankuene, M.H.R., Rov. Renata Tangata, and Rupcno Paerafa, who died shortly after dining with Archdeacon Clarke, and whoso deaths aro supposed to be caused through eating potted meats. At the meeting of the North Wairarapa County Council held yesterday, Mr Baker said that over a thousand siyagsmcn were ferried over the Akiteo ferry in 1? months for which nothing was paid, all the men pleading poverty to tlio ferryman, Mr J, G. Cox stated that at a station on tho coaßt, over rive hundred swaggers called during six mouths, and each got supper, bed, and breakfast from the owner before proceeding on their journey.

Tho Masterton Volunteers returned from tho New Plymouth encampment last eveninp, and express themsolves well pleased with the arrangements -made at the camp. Tlioy atato that tlio "own correspondents" reports in tlio Wellington papers are greatly oxagrerafced and misleading, and that tho food provided was of good quality, but at times suffered in the cooking. Tho rowdyism iw reported was greatly overdrawn, "our own's" imaginations being utilised mora than thoir ocular visions gave them credit for reporting. The Wairarapa contingent were Itluce times cheered during the march past, and received a special mcsn'ai'o from Sir fleorgo Whitmore, complimfciit-. ins; them on the maimer in which they wont through the maiiMuroß,' and the steadiness they exhibited in the march past, Col. Stapp, and acting Major Blyth also complimented-them for their efficiency in tlio drill.

The Pall Mall Gazette recently offered a prize fur fcho best suggestions as to what Her Majesty should do in her jubilee year, and a majority of the answerers have suggested that she should abdicate. The Wairarapa Clothing Factory are still allowing purchasers of New Zealand Clothing a discount of os in the £. They aro also making suits to measure from 47s 6d, Trousers and Vests from 28s 6d, and Trousers from 18s (id. A call cordially invited. Note the address: Next T, G. Mason, Queen-street, Masteitai. E, B. Hare, Manapor.-AcvT. A Wqnperitjli Henx.—Many aro the instancescitecl of the astonishing fecundity of the various species of domesticated fowl; hut tho celebrated Wellington Henn (which, Grange to say, is of the masculino gender) has a soul above the mere production of egpo. The manner in which he turns out Vonetian Blinds etc., is the wonder and admiration of, everybody, from the Governor downwards. The nimio of this wonderful bird is E W. Henn, and his well-known fowlhouse is the Poneke Steam Window Blind Factory, Molcsworth-stroet, Wellington.—Advt,

The Volunteer Fire Brigade hold a meeting this evening. A general meeting .of members of the Mastcrtou-Hawera proposed special settlement takes place this evening in Messrs Jas -Brown & Co.'s auction rooms,- Queen Street.

ln : 6nr report of the Wairarapa South County Oi'iihcil meeting iri .Monday's issue, we inadvertently .stated' that',the action of the deputation to the Surveyor-' General re .th'o Kaiwhata Bridle-Track, was opposed by- the Council. This should liaye read 'approved. ■■[. ,-.-.•<-

There is every appearauce of this district gettim; tjie,mucK -needed.'rain, the stead/manner in which it commencedthis morning promising to bo lasting. A mob of 150 head of cattle bad to be sent from ono of the best "Wairarapa runs.tlns. week'to the Fielding district ; 'to .graze, owing-te the continued drought here.

The Volunteer Fire Brigade Ball and Concert takes place in tho Theatre Royal. to-morrow evening, The Committee have done all in their power to.mako the affair a success, in tho way 'of providing good music and refreshments. Tim programmei includes . vocal and musical selections, and a good evening's amuseinent is promised.

The cricket match, Wellington v Auck land, was commenced at Auckland yepter' .day, the home 'team 'remaining at the wickets the whole'day, and ,vhon stumps wore-drawn had scored;2oß for nine. 'wickr.% D. Lynch being top.', scorer with 81. Jiidd, the Wairarapa representative, 'was instrumental-ill disposing of four of tho batsmen.

liy a Press Association telegram from Woliin«ton at noon to-day wa learn that at the Supreme Court this- -morning Crabtree was furfchwr" remanded for sentenco' until next Saturday. The Grown Prosecutor hinted that information .would bo laid against the persons to whom the' prisoner sold tho qoods, and that Crabtree wciild bo required to give evidence. Fred Mountain, for larceny, was sentenced to 12 months' probation.

Tho Manawatu Times says:— Several instances have come •to our knowlego recently which i;o to show that it is rather, unsafe to send money through the post office to Wellington, So far as the local office i 3 concerned no blame can bo attached, but in the Wellington office thore is evidently. somo Blackness, In one instance-reported'to us a letter with a cheque had gono astray, and the latest instance in which a Post Office order has boon cashed by someono other than tho ono for whom it was intended, Wo would caution our readers against sending money in this way, and the Department shields itself from any loss by printing on tho order a notification that when once tho order has been paid to anyone, the department does not hold itself -responsible,.to compensate the rightful owner.'

The .World, which assisted to introduce 'thesystem ot' interviewing' into England, now cries out about the length to which the system is earned, - Boforrinc; to the particulars published regarding the death of Lo v d Iddesleighj it says: *' It is something now to find the family doctor in attendant) iu the hotiso of mourning suhmitting himself with alacrity to the ' interviower- as a means ot Belf-advertise-mont, and noivspaporn ready to jiubliah the confidential details of his ministration;)' to tlio world, Hitherto we, have been accustomed to regard the medical man as a sort of lay prießt, and the secret' of the sick room as almost, if not quite, as sacred as those of the confessional. We owe to oiw of Lord Iddesleigh'3 medical attendants the far from pleasing discovery that this is not always the case, and that even professional reticence is'not invariably proof against tlio .illui'anißnts of a littlotsmporary notoriety; To what length 'interviewing' of tin's kind is destined to bo' carried he would bo a bold man who should venture to predict. But that in any sliapn it is neither more nor less than an outrage on public decency is a fact concerning which there can be no question or doubt whatever,"

The unfurfcuim'e Claimant has at length reached the lowest rung of fortunes ladder, bar the workhouse, says a home correspondent of a Colonial paper. He k exhibiting himself in a travelling caravan in the States in company with a 'boarded lady' and a' deformed dwarf for a [jenny a show. A New Sontli Wales' squatter' who know Castro years ago at Wagga Wagra eamo acmes this sjiow at Chicago (1 think ho said), and went in to see if ho could recognise his nklaequaintanco. He found tlio erstwhile burly butcher a broken-down old man, hopelessly weary mid despondent. The Australian camo to the conclusion that (whatever was the case originally) the Claimant firmly believes himself to be Sir Roger Tichborno now. Ho has acted the lie till it has bobecome solid reality to him. Tho one thing all who have ever met Castro (from Setweant Ballantine and Guildford Onslow in his most prosperous days down to Davitt and other prisoners at Dartmoor) all unite in saying is that, drunk or sober, no tcmutafcion would over persuade him to confess his impersonation of Tiebborne a fraud. Even now ho will tell you "hisname and his honor are dearer to him than life," With a yiow to settling the Tichborne question finally at rest, and guarding future generations of tho family from tho annoyinp pretensions of tho Claimant's progeny, Sir Edward Tichborno recently, 1 am told, instructed his solicitor to offer "Sir Roger" a small annuity if ho would make an affidavit (for publication' after his death) of tlio true facts of the OrtonCastro conspiracy, The offer was scorn■fully repelled.