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Pahiatua Herald, Volume I, Issue 83, 4 December 1893, Page 3

On a property where the rabbit shoot - in- •*' strictly pres* mil, upon the southern const of Kngland, a|boy was once caught with two dead rabbits in his possession and nothing else that would account for their decease. A search of his pockets revealed nothing bat two lire crabs of small dimensions. th> end of a candle and a box of matches. I'pon promise of release the urchin was persuaded to disclose his method of procedure. First he selected a likely barrow, and then he stripped off his clothes, putting his cost over one hole, his trousers over another, and his shirt over the third. He lit the candle and dropped a little of the grease upon u crab's back and ' uck the lighted candle thereon, and then put the crali at an unoccupied opeuing. Straightway the frightened torchhearer tied sideways into the darkness and explored the innermost depths, while the boy, expectant as a terrier, awaited events outside. Presently a rabbit bolted into the coat, and boy. rabbit and coat all rolled oter together, the hoy rising from the fray with the rabbit in his clutches.— London Spectator. The schooner Meg Merrilies, on ar riling at Bismarck island was seized by thedenuan authorities until a line of el-"** was paid fur taking coloured labour from the Howes group without iicvuss. The captain had to sell his trading goods to raise the amount. He asaerts that the men were onlyshipped as a crew, and intended to entsr the island trade. Ha will represent the matter to the New South tV ale - Government.