WELLINGTON EXTRACTS.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 346, 21 October 1848, Page 134

WELLINGTON EXTRACTS.

A meeting of some of the friends of the late Colonel Wakefield was held at the Aurora Tavern on Saturday last, the 30th September, for the purpose of making arrangements for collecting subscriptions to erect a monument to his memory. >The chair was taken by the Hon. H. Petre, and several resolutions were passed for the furtherance of the objects of the meeting. The subscriptions were limited to one guinea, and Major Baker .was requested to act a Secretary, and to communicate with the other settlements inviting their co-operation. It was also proposed to. collect further subscriptions towards the erection of a monument in the Nelson settlement, to the memory of the sufferers in the Wairau MaJsacre. — Spectator, October 4. Last Saturday sennight a flock of ewes belonging to Mr. Crawford, depasturing at Cape Terra witte, were attacked by native dogs, and thirty-one of them destroyed on the spot, and several have since died from the effects of the bites and worrying they received. The ewes were just on the eve of lambing, the remainder of the flock having lambed two or three days afterwards, so that the loss is doubly severe. The owners of sheep stations are continually exposed to severe losses by the - depredations of Maori dogs, of which there are always a number at each pa belonging to no particular owner, and unless some steps be taken. to abate the nuisance, it will operate as a severe drawback on the profits of sheep farming. The. Dog Ordinance applies only to dogs kept by Europeans, and does not extend to native dogs. — Ib.