Campbelltown Notes.
[FROM OUR OWN CORBESPONDENT.I On Saturday night last, Mr A. Arnold sustained a heavy loss by a bush fire on an adjacent property extending to a field and destroying about twenty acres of grass. An outhouse was also destroyed in which was stored about £30 worth of tallow all ready packed to be sent away yesterday. By dint of hard work the slaughterhouse was saved. Mr Arnold estimates his total loss at a trifle over £40. He had purchased stock to put on the grass on the Friday preceding. Never since Campbelltown was first settled has there been such a scarcity of grass. At this time in previous years the pastures were always bright and green, but now they are parched up, and many settlers are unable to keep their stock, which are consequently at a low figure. The supply of milk to the factory has decreased in proportion, and the settlers are only making half as much money as they did during December. Most of the harvesting has been done, and the crops are nearly all in stacks of which I can count a hundred within a very small radius from the Taipo bush. Good results .are anticipated, but as the threshing has only just started I cannot give any returns.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 244, 20 February 1894, Page 3
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