AUSTRALIAN NEWS THE DROUGHT IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. SERIOUS OUTLOOK FOR THE SQUATTERS.
> Adelaide, October 2. The effects of the hot dry weather now being experienced are becoming so disastrous that it is feared the crops in many cases will be a total failure. In the north this is especially the case, and the squatters' outlook is also very gloomy. Those pastoralists who are within reach of the railways are determined upon shifting their flocks to the south-east, or anyAvhere near Adelaide where feed can be obtained for them. The use of no less than 180 railway trucks has been ordered for this purposo by one squatter, while another, rather than pay railway freights and risk tho market, will leave nearly 2,000 head of cattle to take their chance, but believes that the majority will die. A squatter in tho Blinman district also lias a run of 90,000 acres, with only the small number of 6,000 sheep on it. He has to remove 5,000 of these to save their lives, and the other 1,000 will be left to do the best they can.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 305, 6 October 1888, Page 4
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182AUSTRALIAN NEWS THE DROUGHT IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. SERIOUS OUTLOOK FOR THE SQUATTERS. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 305, 6 October 1888, Page 4
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