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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10957, 23 December 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

The wasp plague in England during the past summer caused the closing ;>f a confectionery shop for five .days. The wasps filled the establishment and could not be routed. So the proprietor' closed his doors in despair. A girl is reported to have died from the effects of a wasp sting. Carnarvon Castle is the most splendid specimen of medireval military architecture surviving in Britain, not excepting Ainwick. Art and beauty were combined with strength by De Elfreton, the architect, who had been commanded to construct a palace within an impregnable fortress. Whether the mean little passage chamber in the Eagle tower was the birthplace of the infant prince whom Edward I. made the medium of such a grim practical joke upon the Welsh soems doubtful, but the main story may still be true. Every famous soldier who helped to make history in this corner of Britain has played some part within nr without the walls of Carnarvon Castle. It has been starved into surrender, but never captured by force of arms, and can therefore claim to be considered a famous fortress.