PLAGUE OF CRICKETS.
[BY TELEGRAPH— SPECIAL TO THE P051.J AUCKLAND. This Day. Ruawai and Raupo (two Northern Wairoa settlements) are suffering from a [>!ague of ciickets. more especially the and by tho riverside. A resident leaving for Dargaville one morning, and being excited with tho prospects of a good time in the metropolis, omitted to shut his house up. On his return, according to a Star correspondent, he found all his clothing in shreds, and even the leather binding on hii books destroyed. Several new suits and dresses that were intended to cut a dash at the Easter holidays were found to be beyond redemption. Another man solemnly declaics that the crickets have to account for a calf and a fowl.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 82, 8 April 1910, Page 3
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121PLAGUE OF CRICKETS. Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 82, 8 April 1910, Page 3
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