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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 80, 24 July 1876, Page 2

A student in Natural History, as displayed in the streets of Wellington, informs us ("Post") of a circumstance in which a number of unkind carpenters, and a crowd of half-alarmed spectators, took , delight on Wednesday. That was the demolition of a colony of rats in the neighborhood of the Branch Hotel—such a community of these obnoxious animals as is' seldom seen, and the less often the better. In making an excavation, a hole was exposed in which there were about 200 rats, very alive and kicking, though heaped above each other sufficiently to suffocate the underlings, and many of them of enormous size. The race is not such a favorite with mankind <as to justify any doubt as to their fate. They were assailed with every description of stick and brickbat, and immolated forthwith.