Bad Weather Down South.
GREAT LOSS OF STOCK. fPer Press Association ) Dunedin August 21. At the Land Board applications were received for substantial reductions in the rental of Morven Hills and Hawkdnn runs, the grounds in each case being severe losses of stock in consequence of tbe terrible weather, which renders it impossible that the rent can be paid out of the income of the stations. It was stated in the case of the Morven Hills estate that 50,000 sheep have perished. The mauager at Hawkdun anticipates that the whole of the flock has succumbed, although that cannot be definitely known until the snow melts. A carefully made estimate of tbe probable loss of sbeep by tbe snow "in the Geraldiueand Mackenzie counties makes it about 300,000 ont of 530,000 on the large stations, and it is feared that the survivors will be worth very little.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 46, 22 August 1895, Page 2
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146Bad Weather Down South. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 46, 22 August 1895, Page 2
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