OHINEMURI. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 181, 4 December 1886, Page 2

OHINEMURI. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Paeroa, Friday. I have been informed that the orchards in this district arc pretty free of the codlin motli this season, but there is a small insect known hero as the " beetle," which is making sad havoc among the fruit trees. The proper name of this troublesome little pest is the " cicado," and excepting the codlin moth ifc is one of the worst enemies with which the orchardist has to contend. It is well known to the natives as a fiequenterof the manuka scrub, but of late years it has acquned a taste for fruit trees, the leaves of which it attacks in a most rapacious manner, and there is no knowing: where ita ravages will terminate. Cultivation is said to be about the best known remedy for checking its progress and several of our fruit growers having that object in view arc now breaking up the soil amongst their trees in the hope that it will have desired effect. Messrs Walker and Clayton met with an accident ©n the Waihi road a few day's since, which might have been attended with serious result. It appears that they were driving in a buggy along the road in question, at a point where it converges towards the river, when the horsojraissedifcs footing,f ell, upsetting th« buggy ; throwing out the occupants ani the whole concern rolled over the bank into the river, which, by the way, was pretty high at the time. After a considerable amount of trouble and a good wetting the two gentlemen managed to extricate the horse and buggy, which, excepting a splintered shaft, was not much the worse for the mishap, and the necessary repairs beingeffocted,they were enabled to continue their purney.