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Newspaper

Cairns Post

Location

Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Date

Aug 06, 1928

Page

12

Sugar Experiment Stations Report On Cane Pest Control

The notice discusses the Sigar Experiment Star Wreeter area pests near Cairns and Emtonielo gist at Meringa. It notes the white cane pest's ongoing damage across localities, improved cultivation methods reducing impact, and Burdekin growers' interest. Recommendations focus on approved control methods amid economic possibilities of the pest.

Wreeter E. Jarvis Meringa Cairns Wordekin

Locating and Treating Termite Nests and Tunnels

Practical guide to finding termite nests by tracking worker paths and destroying the colony. Describes digging out nests or fumigating sites, using carbon disulfide injections, and applying paradichlor or benzene based mixtures in roots, stumps, and galleries. Notes swarming periods and success rates from Natal trials with calcium cyanide, benzine, and sulfur arsenic fumigants.

Phaces Persombilla East Indies Paris Natal Meringa Fem Termerarium Willy Med Fannie Shoul

Termite Control Methods Discussed for Brazilian Nests

The article reviews subterranean termite nests and discusses implementing central methods to counteract the Hardekin termite Mastotermus darwiniensis Frog. It notes potential effectiveness despite difficulties and mentions Brazil and Leucotermes fenwis Haw as a key termite. Control ideas include injecting nest substances like carbolic acid carbon disulphide histolide engine or essence of trepetitine Ncute. The Weevil Borer cane control progress from May to June continues into next month.

Alten Brazil

George Gissing Scholar and AR 1.T. Novelists Career

A biographical sketch of George Gissing outlines his life from Wakefield birth in 1858 to education at Owens College Manchester. It notes his youth in which reading shaped his pessimistic fiction and highlights his early career in the United States as a teacher and later as a gaslitter in London. It discusses his marriage, teaching work, and the influence of poverty on his writing while touching on his views on female education and general liberal study for girls.

George Cissing George Vike Jol Benudhan Gissing Iissing George Kissing Wakefield George Owens College Manchester States England London Gissling

Portraits of Gissing and Browning in a London Circle

A reminiscent piece recalls Gissing as lacking humor yet deeply committed to art and temperament, with notes on his early duties to siblings. It contrasts him with Thackeray and Scott and recounts social circles, private concerts, and anecdotes involving Browning and Charlotte Bronte.

Scott Thackeray Frederic Harrison Devonshire-street Porthrod Place Kensington Gardens Square Browning Harry Cornwall Charlotte Bronte Petit Charl Thackergy

Gissing Letters Reveal Private Strains and Final Years

A review notes how George Gissing’s letters from 1880s to his death reveal morbidity and a restless mind. The correspondence with Morley Roberts and HG Wells documents health decline, travels in England and Europe, and the push toward secrecy, with a late telegrams-borne deathbed message shaping an illuminating book.

Exeter Morscom London Clevedon Hourkin Aie Eartu St. Jean de Luz England Monty Ree Emily Morley Roberts Wells Buirry Hk

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