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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 276, 12 March 1877, Page 3

Fu: t!: r inielligt nee lias readied us fP'iu ii:i■ .seat. or rat er seats, of war—a .-tinst bunny." S;iys the Southland y.Wttifin the last eight months v. r learn t'.a- TU.OMU of the ' critters' have met t'.eir doom on Mount Beaumont .station. an I on »:ie adjoining station of M<-nut L-i.ton n>>t fewer than 100,000 have he ii slaughtered in tlie same period. One fa-.r. furnished l.v Captain Stevens, will illustrate the costly Jiature of this warfare. Jt is, that lie has paid the haiulsoine .sum of £:J00 for dogs alone. Another significant statement is that at Avondaie there will be 7,000 fewer sheep to shear this year than there were last season. On Mr. Holmes's station 120,000 of tiie pests have been destroyed, and yet at this, as at all the other places mentioned," the forces of "bunny "have not visibly decreased. This is the most disheartening feature of the war, and it has had such an eifect on one run holder that he has resolved to closely fence in his freehold land, and abandon all the rest—some -10.000 acres—to the wages of the foe. Naturali. ti, and injudicious acclimatises, may here have an opportunity of liiidiiiLC how soon the rabbits will "eat themselves out," and where they will emi»r;;te to when that is accomplished. The fatter question is likely though to be more deeply interesting to neighbouring proprietors. {For roit'innotion of Kewssee Fourth Page.) OAMARU MUTUAL BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETY. rrUIE usual GENERAL MEETING of X the above .Society will be held in the Mechanics' Institute, on TUESDAY EVENING the 13th MAIiCH, between the hours of 7 and 5.30, for the RECEIPT and SALE of CASH, kc. GEORQE SUMPTER, Gilo Secretary. PUBLIC NOTICE. npin-: Undersigned begs to tender his I thanks lor th-3 pati onage that has been a.'cordcd to him during the kst three yea s, and takes this opportunity of informing his Customers that Jie has II E M O V E D To that Shop next door to J. Wansbrough, Thames-street, And hopes, by prompt attention to their wants, to merit a continuance of their favours. ( G. W. DRAPER, SEEDSMAN AND FRUITERER, Th am es-street, Oatnaru. N.B.—Next door to J. Wansbrough.