OTAGO ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.
A meeting of the Council of the above Society, held at the Government Buildings at four o'clock this afternoon, was attended by Messrs J. P. Maitland, M. Holmes, A. C « B °gg» and W. Arthur (secretary). The Secretary reported that Mr Eills had captured a number of English songbirds and taken them to the Bluff. The b'.rds taken down were starlings, skylarks, chaffinches, yellow-hammers, hedgesparrows, blackbirds, two cock-pheasants, and three hen-pheasants. The secretary to the Lakes Society asked to be supplied with six pairs of birds of each of the following descriptions, viz., grey hrks, blackbirds, thrushes, yellow-hammers, and chaffinches.—lt was resolved that Mr Hills should catch the birds on his return to Dunedin, and forward them. An application by Mr William Steward, ci Oamaru, asking that a stag or hind might be placed in Goodwood Bush for the purpose of being hunted by harriers, and remarking that these animals were too fleet of foot to be injured, was regarded as impracticable at present.
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Evening Star, Issue 5050, 12 May 1879, Page 2
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167OTAGO ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY. Evening Star, Issue 5050, 12 May 1879, Page 2
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