Certain native animals of New Zealand seem to give way before those from Europe with which they are brought in contact. The Norway rat has completely exterminated the native rat of New Zealand. The English house fly drives out the blue-bottled native, Capt. Cook carried pigs to New Zealand and they increased so rapidly that landlords now offer rewards for killing them. English weeds monopolize the soil. European clover exterminates the native flax plant, and European animals destroy tne New Zealand perennials. These facts tend to prove that organisms of the northern latitudes are more hardy than those nearer the equator.
Santa Fe Weekly Gazette, Santa Fe, NM, February 8, 1868