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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 287, 4 December 1868, Page 2

■ The following dismnl prospect for the squatting districts of Australia appears in the Pastoral Times: — The summer has set in by some very hot weather, which commenced on Tuesday last and lasted till -Friday morning. For. two days- it was :.93<deg., in ihe -shade, and as the majority ■of runs of these districts are greatly overstocked, the prospect for stoclc during the Bummer is by no means pleasant. A Murrumbidgee squatter thus. writes : * Within the last fortnight I have had 51,500 sheep travelling through, the run. Squatters are put to the, greatest shifts for grass, nud every spare piece of hilly couniry will be. rented for flocks from ihesultbush districts.' Kiverine stockowners keep tlieir runs so eaten" bare that the grass has up time to grow and even the roots are eaten up by the flocks and herds. A mob of fat cattle from the middle Darling sold) at Adelaide for £9 each. Rain has fallen generally /throughout Queensland. At Sydney, in--quir-fes coti'tinue for good collie runs, and for such very full pifes are obtainable. Several weie auder offer there, but the - contiuued. dry weather proven ted purchases from being coiujjlf'teil." "For store xsattle the demand increased iv Sydney, and'high. rates were offered for "Wrllbred lots. Disease has thinned the Queensland herd?,,; -as ..-well as those in itue nQiih of ■ .NeW^ South l'Wak ' ' The iWife'pf .the Rev. Johu H.. G-arven^ of PalraerVislaDtf, near Grrafton, \N.S. W., committed, suicide by taking ; etryehaiae, whil? ;|jab6ring ahcier ; temporary ipsaoity,> oeoas^^ tbrdaghrfrettiDg at the loss of $?r spD/isr.Uo died eoms mouths back.