Introduced, innocently enough, by the missionaries, it goes by their name in some districts.
Rust, mildew, and other blights, have been imported along with plant and seed.

The rabbit, multiplying in millions, became a very terror to the sheep farmers, is even yet the subject of anxious care and inspection, and only slowly yields to fencing, poison, traps, dogs, guns, stoats, weasels, ferrets, cats, and a host of instruments of destruction.

In poisoning the rabbit the stock-owners have well-nigh swept the native birds from wide stretches of country.

The weka, or wood-hen, with rudimentary wings like tufts of brown feathers, whose odd, inquisitive ways introduce it so constantly to the shepherd and bushman, at first preyed upon the young rabbits and throve.

Now ferrets and phosphorus are exterminating it in the rabbit-infested districts.