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Show f DESTROT RABBITS. Lafltralia Overrun With the Little Fleet-Tooted Creatures, Crea-tures, SEATED ANGER IN THE VILLAGE. Oar Cathedral A Singular AfflictionNotes Af-flictionNotes of Interest. ( . I nicajo Herald. ... ,-. It having been alleged that the Aus ralian government had refused to allow I Pasteur the reward of 420,000 offered o the person who should suggest the beet jjn for the destruction of the rabbits hatinfofit the antipodean colonies, the ffant has been interrogated on the mat-' er. He says that he has not been reused re-used the reward, for the simple reason tat he never sought it, and that owing ) circumstances otferwhich he had no ontrol he could not cla'im such a reward. When he read in the newspapers that he Australians desired to get rid of their nbbits he immediately thought of his jethod. Experiments of a necessarily estricted character enabled him to arrive arr-ive at the conclusion that rabbit virus raj most violent, and that, by inoculat-,j inoculat-,j a tew animals with it, it could be ipiily oommunicated to any number of iem, He accordingly sent M. Loir, bis ?pk'W, and another of his assistants to Miralia in order to try the experimepta bich he had made in his laboratory on more extended scalo. Iho Msistants returned to France after few months, discouraged. According i M. Pasteur, they were not allowed by leoemimission appointed by the Australia Austra-lia government to effect any important (periments. Tins commission permit-id permit-id the assistants to inoculate a few rab-i, rab-i, and the experiments were succes-il succes-il enough to warrant a further extendi exten-di of the authorization; but all sorts of elays and adjournments were caused ttil the assistants abandoned all hope of singable to carry out the purpose for liich they had undertaken the voyage i Australia. Such is M. Pasteur's al-lost al-lost vertabim version of the affair of the itipodean rabbits. |