COLD WEATHER IN GIPPSLAND.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 24, 27 July 1895, Page 2

COLD WEATHER IN GIPPSLAND.

GREAT DEMAND FOR STOCK FOR WESTERN AUSTRALIA. RAILWAY RETRENCHMENT. (Per Press Association.) M EMiot'RXK, This Day. Many cattle are starving in Gipps laud in consequence of the continued sn )\v falls. The -weather is intensely cold. Foxes have become a great pest in the Port Fairy district. They were so ennuing that it was impossible to destroy them until a method was adopted of shooting birds, and without touching them with hands to stuff st-ycHae in their throats, and leaving them on a trail. Sydney, July 26. The full Court granted leave to appeal to the Privy Council against the decisiou in the payment of members case. A consular report has been asked for by a number of European Governments iv reference to the export of live cattle from Australia. Adklaidk, July 26. There is a great demand for fat cattle sheep and horses for the Western Australian goldfields, large shipments being forwarded every week. The Government intend to make sweeping reductions in order to reduce the deficit of L 60,000 for the present financial year. The railway estimates were returned to the Commissioners with orders to reduce them L 50,000. Hob art, July 26. The Assembly reduced the University vote from L4OOO Jo LISOO. "Brisbane, This Day. Shearing is resumed at Bowen Downs station. The kitchen is guarded by police. _^____