§ MR. A. M'ARTHURasked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether he is aware that the locusts have already inflicted great injury in Cyprus; what steps the Local Government is taking to deal with the pest; and, whether there is reason to believe that the measures adopted are calculated to accomplish their object?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKE, in reply, said, that he might answer the first and third portions of the Question in the affirmative. In reply to the second portion of the Question, the steps that were being taken were being adopted, not so much to mitigate as to entirely extirpate the pest. Papers on the subject would be laid before the House.