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Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 May 1916, Page 3

Mr VV. Collins, farmer, of Makirikiri, sustained a rather serious loss on Saturday night, says the Palanerston paper. He hodl made arrangement- to sell 200 fat sheep, and instructed Ins man to put the sheep, m an open paddock on which the man's whare «'<is situated, as the intending buyer was to inspect them on S i india y. On Saturday night the man wont to Mangainahu and in his albsence the whare was burnt ed down. Next morning when'i.lie would-be buyer arrivedi on the scene, be whare was foiihdl to have been destr jyed. end the sheep Were seen in heaps against a fence in the corner o'f the pad dock near where the whare had stood. Seventy-eix of the sheep were diead, and a number of others were in such a bad way that many of them were expected to succumb. There were no signs of any injury, the sheep not having even been signed. It- is thought tlint- they had been attracted or distracted by the glare of the fire, had rushed into the corner, and been suffocated.