WELLINGTON GOSSIP.

Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1760, 22 June 1886, Page 3

WELLINGTON GOSSIP.

(From our own correspondent.) June 15. THE EABBIT PSST. I forward you by this post a list of questions submitted by the Joint Committee on the Rabbit Nuisance, in the hope that you will be able to find room for them in the columns of your journal. lam aware that the adoption of my suggestion must necessarily mean the monopolising of a considerable amount of your valuable space, but theD, Mr Editor, I must invite you to look at the matter from another point of view. You are aware that the rabbits, by the consumption of grasß, grain, and turnips, are playing the very mischief with the farmers in your district. Should the publication of these questions result in eliciting answers sufficiently practical to to enable the Government, by adopting the suggestions, to eradicate the pest, see what a name you would make for yourself. I believe }'ou would be knighted by the next Jubilee Cabinet. (We trust that before that period comes round to be in the enjoyment of more brilliant honor than even QueeD Victoria can bestow, compared with which the dignity of a K.C.M.G. is paltry and mean. — Ed.) Then, again, there is another way of looking at it, and one I think that is worthy of your grave consideration, seeing it is calculated to affect you very materially. Snppose the gratuitous notification is attended with good results — and I don't see why it shouldn't — how would that

affect you ? Why, instead of having to ineerfc those little paragraphs coaxing your patrons to call and settle their accounts, your sanctum would be invaded by goodhumoured customers anxious to show their gratitude by insisting on paying up long before due date. All would be loud in their enunciation of the power of the press, and each in his turn would confidentially explain to you that his answers were instrumental in wiping out the rabbits. I think, Mr Editor, my suggestion is a capital one, from a business point of view, and I hope you will act on it. Set solid — there is no need to lead out as if you were setting an advertisement ; and while you are about it you might insert a local to the effect that any answers forwarded to Mr James Fulton or to Mr Donald Reid will receive due consideration.