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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8726, 17 November 1891, Page 5

At Dunedin yesterday George Bowden wa3 committed for trial for breaking into the house of Ann Sherry, and stealing articles value £2(i. The Girfcu Peaks estate, Canterbury, consisting of 2248 res, sold on Saturday at an average of £2 lis per acre. While insect products are not numerous in comparison with the number of insects, of which there are nearly 300,000 species known, there are several of commercial value. Tho silkworm is tho most useful of insects, furnishing the world an annual product valued at over £40,000,000. The yearly value of the cochineal produce amounts to millions, while many of the gums broucht from the East are produced by the insects piercing the barks of certain trees, and thus causing the exudation. The quantity of honey annually stored up by bees amounts to many millions of pounds, and the wax is almost equally valuable. Gallnuts, from which a valuable kind of ink is made, are caused by insects, while more than one kind is used in medicine. In some parts of Asia and Africa a share of the people's food is supplied by the swarms of locusts, so that the insect world really contributes largely both to tho comfort and luxury of mankind. - Doctors and Chemists say no medicine introduced to the public has ever met with the success accorded to Dr. Soulc's Genuine American Hop Bitters, 1