The " Tapanui Courier " cautions persons preparing the new pollard poison for rabbits that there is a danger to the health attached to the work. This Mr Wrensted, who has been making a considerable quantity of the poison, has found from experience. Through inhaling the fumes' of the steaming mass he became very ill, the whole system being affected, and for several days he was quite prostrated. A permanent injury might easily result to the health, and hence manufacturers should take warning. One of the principa features is to prepare the poison in the open air, in order that the fumes may have space to escape, and precaution should be taken not to remain in a stooping attitude over the steaming pollard.
The Hon. Mr Reeves is having a bad time of it at tbe hands of Government supporters. The newspaper of which Mr Hogg, M.H.E. (who is a strong Government supporter), has control, deals with the Minister of Labor in the following trenchant terms : — " Mr Reeves is not a labor leader. He is an experimentalist, and a theoretic one at that. He never was identified with labor in its practical form. With its necessities or its peculiarities he never was acquainted. In bis desire to afford relief to those who are oppressed he may have been sincere, but that sincerity has not re sulted in measures which are of benefit to the masses." Several Government papers recog* nise the fallacy of much of the rubbish that has been offered to the working men of the colony to improve their condition, and make no secret of their dislike for it.
