A PLAGUE OF BEETLES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LII, Issue 5826, 28 October 1879, Page 6

A PLAGUE OF BEETLES.

The Sydneg Morniv Skid's "Buropeannew*” write* that Bum« of at the dreadfol iwmmoJ » w* the Cleonu* cla**, which, hs» eeriou* proportion* that the Gov““ nstur»Jappointed a Committee of method i,£Zd ofldala to report onthe to* of promoting the deitrnction o sucil enemy. Them creatures ■•J n j o J oo eV, that the pownt* °L££thi in the Khaakoff dietriot, took »®»7 m a li.ooo of them, a few day* »^ ro t h*y muddy hole in a field, ® 0 { rain, had been drowned by a sho t {, en i. The field was literally Theoom-beetle faae j* and appear* to te appro«tong A the ftovmce of Odem the “f * becU<* throwe up whole maoee of bet which over the « Foroed devour everything on J haJ bge n labour again*! the wnmonenemy establiehed by the authorities. " little to the taste* of the Future and h®* of them are throwing up comtaking th*m*elre* to other P^ w nro f es »or« ha» miMinn of fonotionane* and P Ml out for Otohakolf to to be adopted aaainit the com bow c^j by the Ma. jfc beetle killing apparatus over Central Asia, and co usef asesssig-sysfe *^*B3B® Province of PnDj'**- itt apP^SJ a-rs^*g-355 The destruction of «> m 111