At the last meeting of the Goat Valley Committee, it was stated that there were ten children who would bo glad to attend the school, if there was a platform at the tuunel. 4.t present, the distance, and the danger of the road prevented attendance. Possibly, some day, those interested will unite to obtain some benefit from a railway which runs past and through their fattrH, but might as well be at " Cimquisaca " (see Inspector Bindon's 4th Standard questions,) or " Mahia," as where it ia, as far as any benefit many of them derive from the line.
Considerable uneasiness is felt at the rapid increase of hares ; nor is this to be wondered at, if the following statements made in the Legislative Council are correct, for while the Hon. Mr Wigley thought the peopie of the Chatham Islands should have hares, in order that they might enjoy the sport of hunting and coursing, and that thtsy couid not confer a greater boon upon them, Mr Stevens snd — ■" the increase of hares was something astonishing— almost fabu lous." He knew of a brace being turned out in South Canterbury in 1874, on hilly country, aud eight years alter the own- r of the property had shot 5000 on the run, and the country all round waa stocked with them Mr Achnd, speaking of South Canterbury, said they came from that part, and was very sorry to any hares wery very numerous ; in fact, the only way to preserve gardens was to enclo-e them with wire netting. They are sad to be doing great .lama^e to garden near Virginia an<i Pickwick Lakes, and barking the fruit trees to a aerious extent. Sport ia not to be obtained for nothing.
