CATS v. RABBITS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING POST.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 83, 6 October 1881, Page 3

CATS v. RABBITS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING POST.

Sir — Would you kindly allow me Bpace in your valuable papor to draw the a+.tention of the people of Wellington and the Burrounding districts to a probable future evil. I refer to the cats employed by farmers and others for the reduction of the rabbit peßt. It ia, generally, aa eaßy matter to Btt a stone rolling down hill; but to stop the same, when once sot in motion, is found to be a totally different thing. The cats, no doubt, are useful for destroying rabbits, but query who or what will dostroy the legions of wild cats which will, no doubt, swarm the district in a year or two? If the corn and turnip-field suffer now. the poultry-yard and sheep-pen will suffer then. I am, &c, Peo Bono Pdblico.

The precautions taken at Wodonga (says the Border Post) to fumigate passengerß to and from Sydney have proved very unpleasant to travellers. Besides having the railway carriages thoroughly saturated with the fumes of brimstone, the custom has been to place a pan of the burning material (flowers of sulphur) in the doorway of the lobby, bo that everyone passing from the train to the coaches outside waiting to convey them to Albury should get a dose of it. Last week the fumes were so powerful as to very nearly asphyxiate a little infant, seated in its mother' b lap in the coach outside, who was ailing from other causes ; and had not the child been promptly removed it is probable that serions consequences would have happened. The sulphur pan was subsequently removed.