MOSQUITOES.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXII, Issue 2871, 8 October 1866, Page 6

MOSQUITOES.

To the Editor of the Daily Southern Cross. Sir, — As any remedy for the plague of mosquitoes may be deemed useful, I shall feel obligedjby your permitting me to suggest, through your columns, that if three or four table-spoonfuls of chloride of lime, in a dish, are placed in a room of moderate dimensions every evening, an hour or so before sunset, sprinkled with vinegar and -water, and stirred occasionally, it will be found that mosquitoes will not enter the apartment, or, if they do, that they will make a speedy exit from it, provided the doors or windows are not closed upon them, 1 should not have thought it worth while, having having little regard for the male population, to have troubled you with this suggestion, had it not been for the sympathy I entertain for that portion of the community whose complexions are often spoiled by their ravages ; and for suffering, helpless children, whose mothers I have sometimes seen leave them alone to the undisturbed onslaughts of hordes of them. — I am, &c, W. C. Beaut. Cambridge, Upper "Waikato, September 20, 1860.