BEE MURDER
MILLION KILLED. - AKMT MMI I ■ '■-'• >'\ AVATTLE PLAT; Oct., IfMurder on the'most wh&lesale'scale ever known in New South Wales lias'* lately been committed/ near , Wattle Flat, a little,settlement 20 iniles from' Fathurst. '.'.' .. ~, ■'•"•'■' When he wont round his, hives recently, Mr. John McAllister, ' a tieofrtnner, found, that during the night someone had smoked out 50 of ' his hives with; sulphur and killed all the bees in them.* A number of other hives had also beenfftfrecttid.' Altogether something, like. 1,000,000- bees must have been kilkHb ' .The, mischief, had evidently all been done in the-ono pight. arid the murderer must have worked very hard. Mr. McAllister informed the* police, and Detective Lawrence was ent up from Sydney to make inquiries . An arrest has been made. i Mr. McAllister was on a visit to Bathurst when the bees were poisoned. He estimates his loss at £3s£), as the bees: are high-bred Italians. He still has 30 hives left.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17175, 27 October 1926, Page 9
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155BEE MURDER Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17175, 27 October 1926, Page 9
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