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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11125, 14 November 1907, Page 2

A gentleman who has just returned to Bathurst (N.S.W.) from a trip to the far west tells "a doleful tale of the damage done by grasshoppers. West of Dubbo, and along the Bogan to its confluence with the Darling, grasshoppers are to be found m immense numbers, and storekeepers and residents of several small towns have been, at, their, -wits' end to keep the pest out of their shops and homes. In many places the insects have had to be shovelled out of. the houses, and. sheep dip has been freely used. Several trains have been delayed owing to the grease on the rails from millions of crashed grasshoppers. Around Trangie, Dandaloo, Xevertire, and Warren the crops have all been eaten up. The insects appear to be going east, and farmers near Wellington are preparing to do their best to counteract their ravages. One' nrop of 400 acres at Trangie was completely eaten off, and m their line of march the ground is completely stripped of all vegetation. Mr Dugaldßoss, a wealthy American, visited the Continent and England on the look-out for th« \*fastest -car m the world," which ended m him purchasing the 200 h.p. Darracq which has been raced with such success m England and America by Mr- Lee Guinness. The car gave Mr Ross a trial at the Brooklandu track, when it covered a measured quarter mile m 7.Bsec, or at the rate of 115.4 miles an hour. Mr Rosa wanted a car to do 100 miles an hour, and he immediately purchased the. Darracqu for £2000. _ The same car Avas driven two miles m 58 4-ssec on the Florida sands, m America, some, time ago. Mr Ross has purchased the car with the view of competing m a 30-mile race on the sands at California, the prize-money t£or -which will be £5000. He is confident that the Darracq is miles faster than anything m America, and that it will pay for itself many times over by, the prize-money it will win on the sands m America. Mr Ross says that he would sooner race on the sand than the Brooklands racing track m England.