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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 660, 1 March 1869, Page 2

A G-ENEHOTTS Sympathy.—lhe Evening Herald (Wanganui) states that Mrs Von Tempsky has sent £SO from her own not large store to Mrs .Russell, widow of Corporal Russell, who was left on the field, slightly wounded, at Moturoa. A Fea.-eul State of Things.-—lf reliance can bo placed on the statement of the Carcoar correspondent of the Bathurst Free Press, a more terrible instance of the effects of the drought in Australia could scarcely be given than the following:— •' The district is crowded with travelling sheep, there being upwards of two hundred thousand in it at the present time, hundreds of which are dving daily, and not one-fourth of them will lire to return to their stations. If rain does not come soon they will perish for wa>it of water, and if rain does come they will die from cold and weakness; for lam certain that six hours' rain would kill fifty thousand of them." Small Faems.—Speaking of the benefits which have accrued from the establishment of small farms in the United States, the Sacramento Weekly Union says : "The peculiarly American system of small farming has made the West the great power it is, while the opposite plan of landed monopoly and consequent evils of sparse population and exhaustive cultivation have been the curse of the South, as well as of Ireland, Australia, and-all the Spanish-American republics. Cheap lands will ensure us small farmers j these given we shall soon have good schools, abounding intelligence, vital industry, good government, and a market for. good newspapers, with everything elge that is good/'