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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4712, 7 May 1894, Page 2

Wb have sometimes syrapathked with Punch's footman, who said, " I am.tired of these everlasting legs of mutton and Irga of pork, why don't they iowent a new animal,'-' We have recently felt that in this colony a new animal has been invented for the use of raau, A friend—may his shadow never grow less—eenfc us a piece of venison, and for the first time in a long New Zealand experience-we dined off royal meat. We were more than satisfied with the new dish placed before us, and after partaking of it beef seems tasteless, and mutton insipid, It will be many years yet before venison can come into general uee in this district, but even an occasional taste of it is something to be thankful for. "Pate cannot harm me, I have dined to-day," may fairly be said by anyone who has fed off well cooked venison. The deer in our mountain ranges furnish a limited but valuable addition to our food supply, and one which will be highly appreciated, as year by year they become more numerous. Weowemuohtoour acclimatisation sooieties, and to some of our pioneer settlers, men like Mr Charles Booking Carter, who in the earlier days of the colony conceived the idea of utilizing onr waste lands as deer parks. This sentiment comes practically home to a man after eating" venison. The eternal round of "beef and mutton " and " mutton and beef" in thifl colony requires to bo varied somewhat, and it is mainly to our acclimatisation societies that we must look for ohangefl in our dietary scale,