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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9955, 3 April 1895, Page 4

"Boomerang ' Brand Australian Brandy Is tbe moat wholesome stimnlant in the market. Obtainable at all hotels. -[Advt.l 76 When a New South Wales Ministerial patty (says the Bulletin) was flying aronnd Wyalong, right in the middle of the worst part of a track which seemed to run from nowhere to nowhere, without a house or tent ia sight in the very bareness of desolation, a gaunt brick compleslooed scarecrow of a mau suddenly shot into sight— also horn nowhere— and said: "Say, Mister, how many did George Giffen make in the larsC test match!" The Nelson Colonist says:— Mr James Johnston, of Aniseed Valley, has sent to this office a specimen of a rat belonging to a species which eeetna to ba unknown to tbe agricultural community. Thia rat, unlike other rat?, lives in trees, and stores np nuls and fruit for the winter season, taking up its abode in a deserted bird's neat, which is also utilised as a store house. The habits of this rat are described as being somewhat like those of the English equirrel, and when chased it will leap from tree to tree where the trees are contiguous to each other, but when found on an isolated tree It is easily captured. In eilor it is like the black rabbit, the fur being tiaged with grey, bnt perhaps the most striking feature is its long tail. We are told that cats will kill these rats, but will not eat their flesh. Mr Johnston has had most of bis walnut crop destroyed by these pests-, a rat having eaten into each separate nut befoie it) reached maturity, and ecooped the inside clean oat, leaving bat the skeleton huak hanging on tbe tree,

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