Australian Items

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 134, 6 May 1890, Page 4

Australian Items

•SRCIOTTS DESTRUCTION OF STOCK. ACTION FOR'RRiACH OF ~V PRV>MI3E." WV Xx (Puat*B Own Correspondent-) . • ,,/ . Melbourne, April 22. A resident of Numurukah,, who was Across tbe Murray lately, gives -a graphic account of the state of the •country there in consequence of the Bevere locust "plague which has prevailed for the past three or four Weeks.' He travelled over for about twenty miles, and not a blade of grass was <to jbe; seen. The cheep are in a frightful state through starvation, . and larnbingJ .is.-on riowT The condition of the affair is made ail \he more serious as there is no nourishment for either the ewes or. the lambs*, -and so weak are some of the ewes that the crows are^ picking out theii* -eyes while v "th^yJ.are*'-'l^ii.j^ , ' ; -o'n the griptind too helpless "to 1 defend theihsel veil V •Across J;he runs hundreds. of sheep .tod, •reduce^, hy.hjg^er^tq.^wait; we-reJaeeu. So general has been . the plague, 'through the district that it is useless to mdvethe etbbk, ' otheir plaijesi being A •as bad. The '-insects are -• flying tb- ! ward Mulwala and Coro.wa, where the -^raes is pfehtiful aud green. ' X ¥> ' AlfrgdjGK .jJofle's^. a r broker of Port Melbourne, for wnbse'arre'pt'a warrant has been issued on r ' a 'charge of fraud\ilent . ( insolvency, has mysteriously*, •disappeared. His. lif e A is, insured -for •£6000. ; -He was last, seen in an open: boat. It is believed to be a case of .' -ehanuned death. A breach of* promise action, in which .Esther JM arie -Stewart, o^ Tear^b.a,-]^ew jS*outh T^les, claimed £100 V 0; damages from Jno, Duggan, -has j ust been lieard at West Maitland. A verdict for plaintiff ifor- the full -amount- was given. Duggan's -defence was ■that-'Tafter prdmisihg maTriage%e found that Miss Stewart was •of loose character. Defendant was "the winner of Tattersall's £50,000 •sweep*, v : '. ; / -x.'X ...'• -...' : ..j