According to the report of Mr 8. Brown, Government engineer at Cyprus, on the etone that have been taken this year to exurpate tbo locusts In that island, the total number of pita in which locusts were tmpodwas 20.618. A caloahHlon rive* the numfcer of locust* destroyed ae 88,16® millions. The number destroyed last year was computed at 185 mUlions. _ The death is reported of Mr Bobert Hoe, of Now York, fee well-known printing machine maker. He made a considerable fortune out of hie printing machines, which were bailed as a great improvement on their predecessors, though feeir rate of 10,008 ah hour has siacebeea superseded. They were first suit over to the United Kingdom in 1858.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXII, Issue 7411, 29 November 1884, Page 3
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117Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 Lyttelton Times, Volume LXII, Issue 7411, 29 November 1884, Page 3
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