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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5739, 5 December 1896, Page 5

> It is certain that the elephant, the rhinoceros, the bear, the hyena, and other wild animals were at one time common in England. Several bones of these animals have been found in Kent's^Cavern, about a mile from Torquay, * The Southland Netos, ref en-ing to a recent cablegram from Sydney on the subject of telephone extension owing to a reduction of charges for that service, says that the benefit to New South Wales is entirely due to her Postmaster-General copying, as a result of noting the results of the far-seeing policy adopted in New Zealand by the Hon J. G. Ward when he was Postmaster-General. The objection of the Ohaupo fruitgrowers to the enforcement of the Orchard and Garden Pest Act would be unaccountable were it not known that no systematic effort to cope with tho pests has been made in the district. The specific for the eradication of the codlin moth, is well known, consisting of spraying .with Paris green carefully destroying infected fruit, baiula^iuK 1 the trees and lho exercise ot ' perseverance. By these means the pest in the south has been reduced to manageable limits, and will, in a year or two, disappear.