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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1581, 14 December 1885, Page 4

Mr Allingham inserts a Xinas notice to. which the attention of the public is directed. The advertiser has just received a fresh consignment of boots and shoes m all departments, and will offer the same during the holiday season at reduced' prices. Mr Isaac Burncrat, a farmer living near Chambersburg, had a mo9fc wonderful experience recently, narrowly escapinc being killed by ants. He was picking blackberries m a wild path of undergrowth m a dense wood, wlien suddenly he disturbed millions upon millions of large black ants. They were under a thin covering of earth which he stepped on, i and almost instantly the) r crawled up his trouser legs, and when he tried to knock them off they shQwed fight. Before he could get out of the heavy growth of bush he was- covered from head to foot with the pestiferous insects. They bit him,' and crawled into his mouth, ears, and nose. He yelled for help, but soon became blinded with the myraids of ants on his head and face, and before he reached the edge of the wood fell I? elp- !. less to ; tho ground, utterly at the mercy of the insects, and was only saved from death by the timely arrival of a brother. The insects were common black ants of a very large size. Burncrat was bitten by them all over the body, but while very sore, it is thought, providing the bites are hot poisonous, will recover. The case is without a precedent m this sec tion of the country, and it is believed had not aid* arrived when it did the ants would not only have killed but eaten their victim. Fifteen members of the Salvation Army m Napier are to bo charged today with a breach of the new by-law. They have boon collecting money m anticipation of being fined.