DEER-STALKING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13874, 11 April 1907, Page 4

DEER-STALKING.

Cfßou On* Ow.v Correspondent.) WEM/INGTON, April 8. Owing to tho Government not- having ■opened any of the Government Reserves for deer-stnlkin» this,season, several people who camo ii(irc for stalking havo had to go away disappointed. Though the renuino-sporis-men have been denied the. right; poachers have been at work in the Government) reserve. During tho past wrok or 10 days two poachers havo been caught on Tawhaito Station; and will no doubt hij prosecuted for trespass in pursuit of game. The number of stalkers in the Wairarapa district- this year has been less thwi usual.. His Excellency tho (iovevnor, who is at Tnwhaite, has secured come good beads. A Wellington party who returned to-day got 10 hcad-t, and another well-krown Wellington 6)>crtsman toeurcd three heads in as many Generally epeakinc,' tho heads secured this ssason are not 40 ;;ood us'those taken lastseason, tha liorn Ivnng not, so-massive noi , so long ai iwua). This is .itt.ributed to tho drought having made tbo feed poorer, and ifoes to provo tho contention of Wellington sportsmen that food awlclimate haw more to do with tho nature of the head* than the supposititious sta&v of Germain blood. In t-lie staprs shot, on "White Ifoc'c Station tliia season thei'o -is a. very marked differe-nce as I "Compared with those scoured last year