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Among the advertisements recently in a London journal appeared the following: —" Two sisters want washing," and " A spinster particularly fond of children wishes for two or three, having none of her own, nor any other employment." Look to Your Cobks.—Mr J. J. Weir exhibited some larvae, at a recent meeting of the Entomological Society, which he believed to be only the commom mealworm (Tenebrio), but which had been found in the corks of port wine. Considerable damage had been done, since they ate quite through the cork and allowed the wine to escape. He suggested the use of bran instead of sawdust as the probable cause of their incursion into the cellar. Mr W. W. Saunders related an instance of a number of larvae of Dermestes lardarius, which were brought into the docks with a cargo of skins, effecting an entry into an adjoining warehouse, where they perforated and rendered entirely useless a quantity of manufactured corks. —" The Athenaeum."

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Southland Times, Issue 601, 7 December 1866, Page 3

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159

Untitled Southland Times, Issue 601, 7 December 1866, Page 3

Untitled Southland Times, Issue 601, 7 December 1866, Page 3

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