WETHER STONES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2250, 15 April 1897, Page 25

WETHER STONES.

A ran. 12.~T'he rabbiters are reaping a golden harvest at present, making from j£3 to £6 a week trapping. They are getting 4Jd a pair lor the r.ihnits. It'rf a sight to go into Mr Thompson's jjrain store and watch Mr J. B. Thompson, with the assistance of another ami), {jetting the rabbitK ready for the fieezin,? works, '"hey are thoroughly cleaned inside, ouly the iiver being left, and then packed in casos cf I3Q in each case, to be sent to Burnside and frozen solid in the case. The cases aye lika orange cases, the slabs on top and bottom being about 2i a apart. Mr Thompson wends away each Jay about 1400 rabbits. It is past 9at night before they are r hrout;h with their day's work. Other agents at Lawrence send as much or more ay/ay each day. If thf present boom keeps on in the rabbit market, this inspector's occupation will be gone ; but they can" go to sleep for tha winter. yViiVniKii.— The wsalher has been very changeabia dv.ing the past two weeks. We had frost on the 3ist ult. and the lsticst. There has been rain ciore or less on eight days out cf the two weeks. On the night of the 7th, there was atrange flashta of lightning, ami the air was full of electricity. Mr D(>nlau, who was nil the shift in the Golden Ili.se that evening, informed ma that the lightning was very vivid, '*nd was playing and running along trie pipes in such an extraordinary fashion that he was at limes afraid to go near the nozzle. There was hdavy rain that day, and it continued all night. The wind has generally bean from the north-west to south-west. The lowest leading of the thenaoinet*r was 47deg at S a.m. on the 9th, with cold south-we3t shower/; caul iho highest was 70deg at noun on the 11th.