Heavy Snow Storms in the South Island.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 40, 15 August 1895, Page 3

Heavy Snow Storms in the South Island.

GREAT LOSS OF STOCK. The Kurow correspondent of th Oamaru Mail states that a search part; ■which went out from Sandhurst bring > deplorable account of the country, addei to a terrible experience of the sno\ which they would not on any accoun undergo again. Almost all the horses feed has gone in each station, given ti the sheep; and yet the snow has no gone. Now the horses are iv the sam( predicament as the sheep— no feed foi them. One poor fellow was met witl whose feet were completely frustbittei and bandaged up to an enormous sikc He was left at one of the stations, it is supposed he will eventually lose his feet. Not a single sheep was anywhere to been seen, all being under the snow, Neither Burkes nor Mackenzie's Pass was able to be forced through, and a rough time was had in crossing the Hakateramea range. A visitor to Haidon reports (says the Oamaru Mail) that on one block of land where 10,000 sheep were being depastured at the time of the storms only 8 animals were visible. A shepherd who has been in the district thirty years states that he has never seen anything to approach the severity of the weather. At Campbell's, on the Whale's Flat, 6000 maiden ewes were being grazed, and it is not expected that a single hoof will be saved. At Richmond's it is expected there will be a clean wipe out.