ALARMIST NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 54, 27 November 1919, Page 7

ALARMIST NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA

DROUGHT EXAGGERATE IN ENGLISH PAPERS. ' . . Sydney, November 26. • Dissatisfaction, wm expressed in the Legislative'' Assembly at the probable evil effects of the alleged alnyinist cables regarding the drought in Neiv ' South .Wales; cisps tched from Sydney and'pufc lished in the Engl'fih papers. Mr. tf, A; Holman (Premier) said it was a pity that the English paper.? should take reports on Australian conditions from a gentleman who apparently never went further than his office window. He had cabled to S;t C. G. Wade to deny the .statements, nnd had sent official statements showing the actual measure of damage caused by the drought. Ihn 'Kenention.il cablegram puhliehed by "Tho Tillies" and the' "Daily Mail." referred to in. the Legislative Assembly bv Mr. Holma.n, said,.: "Australia, and es-peo:-ally New South Wales, is suffering the n.ost devastating drought in tho white, man's history, far surprising the , 1902 drought. Thousands of settlers aro ruined. Towns aro deserted, and station= are abandoned in.north-wpst New Sr-vH. 'Walei?, and wild dogs aro in pos? «!"■ n. The wheat is insufficient even fo- <epd mironses." Kr C. G. Wadn'lias refiibd rho statements in |he cablegram , . He says there js no-oiwse for alarm, although matters in some pnj'ts are undoubtedly very bad. f'upioiiß raiug have fallen'in the Riverinn, f\nd tlip country is in wonderful condition. Tibooburra, where the conditions ore rcptlted to be particularly bud, is on tjip frinse of an area which is nlwaya pnrt : (illy dry. Business men in London connected with Australia deploro the exn.?p>n!:ed state: ments, wlrch are not in accordance with private cablegrams.—Press Asen. DKOUGHT-STHICKEN STOCK WINDFALL FpR MEAT CANNERIES. Sydney, November 20. There MO complaints that though ■ Hie mi-rket is more'than slutted with stock fmin the dr.niitfjit arens, tlifi price of meat reiWls |ii?li. It is exnlainwl that I'Ms cl-nss of <itH< is not suited for the city demand. Canning companies aro reaping the benefit. They are able to purchase mutton as low as 2Jd. a pound. Assn. .' • A GLOOMY FUTURE. (Kec. November 2C, 5.5 p.m.) : Sydney, November 26. The Sydney "Daily Telegraph's" suet c'.il representative, after visiting the drought nven?, supplies gloomy reports cf rapidly disappearing food and water. Where stock has not been driven off the runs the owners are adopting nil eorts of expedients to save the fast-diminish-iiisr flocks and herd*. The late rains have relieved the situation to a very small extent.—Press Asm,