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+ Renter's Despatches to Patea Daily Mail This Day. The Queen’s Return. London, 141h. Her Majesty the Queen has arrived at Windsor Castle from Mentone, where she has been staying for the benefit of her health. Egypt and Foreigners. Cairo, 14th.—Four Europeans who Were employed in the Treasury have been discharged. No pretext has been offered for their dismissal.
THE BLACK ANT. Many of the leading orchard proprietors in Northern and Southern Germany are cultivators of the common hlack ant, which insect they hold in high esteem as the fruitgrower’s, best friend. They establish ant-hills in their orchards, and leave the police service of their fruit-trees entirely to the tiny colonists, which pass all their time in climbing up the stems of the fruittrees, cleansing their boughs and leaves of malefactors, mature as well as embryotic, and descending, laden with spoils, to the ground, when they comfortably consume or prudently store away their booty. They never meddle with sound fruit, but invade only such as apples, pears, 1 and plums ,as have already been penetrated by the canker, which they remorselessly pursue into its fastness within the very heart of the fruit. Nowhere are apple and pear trees so free from blight and insects.
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Patea Mail, 15 April 1882, Page 3
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