GREAT EXODUS FROM SOUTH AUSTRALIA. FARMERS STARVED OUT.
Adelaide, February Bth. The exodus from Port Adelaide during the week ending last Saturday exceeded the influx by eighty-eight-. What is even worse than the exodus by sea is the con* tinuous depletion 6f farming districts which is now taking place. High rents and worn-out land are driving agriculturists from settled districts in the south, and rabbits, drought, and the proven impossibility' of growing -Wheat are sending awuyjaettlere from the new hundreds in the dry north-east. " The principal goal, of these j i immigrants is the°in6rtli-A?esteni country of Victoria. On Monday/ quite a: small caravan .of farmers, with "their "families, waggons, -and-stock, left Willing™ district overland for the Witnmera. Pitiable talus come frota the north coast, where selectors have been starving along for six or seven years past, toiling against hope in the face of a. pitiless, olimato, which refuses to bring .the . parched wheat plant ' to maturity. There is also considerable exodus of agriculturist* from Yorke/s Peninsula. -
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 242, 18 February 1888, Page 1 (Supplement)
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166GREAT EXODUS FROM SOUTH AUSTRALIA. FARMERS STARVED OUT. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 242, 18 February 1888, Page 1 (Supplement)
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