Daily Colonist (1884-12-07) by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: British Columbia; Newspapers
Published: 1884-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

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G. W. JLange & Son, Victoria,

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AUCTION SA . ES.

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TLIU SALE OF LOTS IN

LOT 184 BURRARD INLET

Advertised to be sold by me TO-DAY, IS POSTPOXJEiD UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

Doc. 3d. 1881.

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G. BYRNES,

AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER,

COMMISSION AND REAL ESTATE ifi'MT AND BROKER.

MRS. DICKINSON'S ArriCltNOOK AND EVKIJ. inir Classes are held at Harmony 1I&11, View Btreet. Terms Htrictly In idrwicei

EVKBX SATURDAY.

Afternoon Cl.nsc-8 Ironi 2 until 4 o'clock

Evening Clo.-sei from Buntll 10:10

Eftiry Tuesday, Tuition I Mass 8 till 10 |> m. Piiplll desirous ol jointo; a 'la«» can apply for terms to Mr*. DICKINSON «t tbe Hall, on Saturdays Irom 2 to i p. m. stld 3m

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BAD BUNNY.

How English Knbhita riavo Overrun Australia.

Some rather curious nnrt interesting facts relative to tho rabbit piagiio of Australia wore detailed in this correspondence a couple of years ago, as gathered from a statement forwarded from Now South Wales, showing tho country to bo overrun with rabbits, so much so that agriculture and stock-raising woro seriously threatonod by their presence. A curious fact iu that connection was that tho rabbits had been introduced from England but a few years before by sonio generous-mindod person who thought ho was bestowing a real boon upon an entirely rabbitless country by this courso.

So thoroughly wore ho and tho community at largo impressed with tho idoa that a jollification mooting, with speeches and champagne, and bon-tiros and a good time generally, was hold when the rabbits wero liberated; visions of rabbit-pio loomed up iu tho mind of tho colonist, without a thought that tho few innocent animals thus liberated would populate tho country with their species iu such 'numbers as to seriously threaten its most important industries.

Consul General Spencer, of Melbourne, writing to tho stato department on this subject, says: "The multiplication of rabbits in the colonies has become a veritable plague. A single pair, introduced for the amusement of tho sportsman, has developed into millions."

Before tho advance of the most timid of animals flocks and herds are compelled to retire, and oven man himself is starved into surrender. Iu somo instances squatters have been compelled to abandon their sheep runs and selectors to relinquish their holdings. Their advanco is as noiseless and persistent aa the droadod phylloxera. Crossing rivers and mountain ranges they are alroady advancing; into the interior, and ore long will probably be found in every part of the island continent, occasioning heavy losses to the agriculturist and grazier, and involving expenditures for suppression that will bo reckoned by many millions sterling.

To exterminate the pest all the many appliances of modern science have been brought to bear, with tho result, in some localities, of only checking its steady advanco. Traps, poisons, liro-arnii, deadly gases, tho dog, tho dingo, the mongoose, have been brought into requisition, with hitherto but partial or indifferent success. Government aid, too, has been invoked, and there has been a generous response. Tho parliaments of Victoria, South Australia, and New

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