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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 5 March 1912, Page 6

A storv presenting some extraordinary told in the Supreme Court at Cnristchurch on Wednesday by the nlaintitf in a civil action, a woman ol P Ji„ 7o It appeared says the "Frei") that in Wine left her home owing to domestic infelicity and disapw i r s Ol ?he th^ne k ro f °a acts, which w- then - ?he maintained herself by. her own mflnstrv acting at various times as cook, end washerwfman. She adopted an a^ future of her experience was that.out of her none too large earnings she had cor. trived to pay 5e a week towards the pui anußua).

It has alwavs been understood that the sleVlin" was the agriculturist's bes frfend among the many varieties of small MrdV tRt We been introduced in.to ( New Zealand (say, the "Otago Daily Times "1 bPt evjdence gf late years nas proved tit the bird is gradually changing its habits, and, from being pmely SsertivoSuß, is becoming both «»:n fruit-eating. Several Central. Otago fruit-rowers have lately suffered from the depredations of this bird, which has developed a decided taste for apples and rpear3 tW* season, scooping out the centres very ttmtW and leaving only the skin. The worst' feature of the affair is that the fruit is attacked when Jt is only three-parU grown, so that ft is not possible td prevent the damage by gathering the fruit. The little German owls ore evidently doing good work in the JSamacleugh district, Alexandra, South, and very few green linnets and goldfinches are now to be seen Hi the orchards. The local growers nay that the buds of the fruit trees have not vbeen interfered with for the past- two or three seasons by these particular birds, whereas before the advent of the owl It Wft» up. uncommon sight to see thousands of both Jjnnets and goldfinches swoop down IM *!.»« orchards in the evenings ar»d strip both fpiijt and leaf bud from the bulk pf the branches,. 7'he owls were increasing it? numbers, and it is now no uncommon occurrence to gep them perched on the rocky faces eve« if) daylight, while at night they can be iiea«d railing to each other in almost all the ofchaf djj..

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