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recently, when, in the latter part of 1884, Mr. Herman Naveau, 

 of Hamilton, obtained some of those bees from Queensland, 

 and has had great success with them. 



ITALIAN BEES IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 



In South Australia, as Mr. Bonney informs me, the Chamber 

 of Manufactures imported a colony of Italian bees from Mr. 

 Fullwood, of Brisbane, in December, 1883, and succeeded in 

 establishing them on Kangaroo Island, where they are doing 

 remarkably well. Mr. Bonney himself has since successfully 

 imported queens direct from Italy, a parcel of twelve from 

 Bologna, to his order, having arrived safely in September, 1 884, 

 at Adelaide. He states that " around Adelaide, bee-keeping is 

 now all the rage, very many persons taking it up as an amuse- 

 ment, while a few are making it a means of livelihood." Much 

 credit is due to this gentleman for the trouble he has taken to 

 place apiculture on a proper footing in South Australia. 



ITALIAN BEES IN TASMANIA. 



To Mr. Thos. Lloyd Hood, of Hobart, the gentleman already 

 referred to, belongs the credit of being the first person to 

 introduce Italian bees into Tasmania. They arrived at Hobart 

 from New South Wales in the s.s. Flora, Captain Bennison, on 

 the 4th October, 1884. Mr. Hood, writing in May, 1885, 

 informs me that he has had great success with them. " Though 

 kept in the city they increased the first season to five strong 

 colonies and two rather weak ones. Most of the young queens 

 are hybrids." 



SUITABILITY OF NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA FOR 

 APICULTURE. 



Any person who had a practical knowledge of apiculture, 

 who had witnessed the results obtained from its improved 

 scientific practice in Europe and America, and who afterwards 

 visited the New Zealand and Australian colonies, could not 

 fail to be struck with the advantages they offer for the prose- 

 cution of the honey industry. First, as regards 



