DROUGHT IN SYDNEY.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 314, 7 November 1888, Page 4

DROUGHT IN SYDNEY.

Sydney, November 2. Thl, drought still continues, and the greatest anxiety prevails throughout the country respecting the crops. In the Ashbumham district, on the Lachlan "River, it is almost impossible that there can be any wheat harvest this season — indeed, the wheat harvest for the whole colony must be very small, and local mil lei s are already buying up stocks at 5s per bushel. In the Mudgee district the crops have entirely failed, whilst in the Wagga Wagga district, hitherto the best-grassed country on the Murrumbidgee River, the grass is scorched off, and the country presents a most parched and bare appearance. The sufferings of stock are very severe everywhere, as the creeks are drying up, and other sources of water supply in the shape of tanks, etc., are failing. At Waiialda, New England district, bush fires are raging daily, and at the Tulloona Station alone 700 sheep have been destroyed, whilst other stations in the same district have all suffered to some extent. In the Young district,one of the chief agricultural districts of the colony, the crops are an entire failure, and news has been received from the Back Blocks that the stock there is in a most wretched condition through scarcity of feed and water.

Later. Heavy rains have fallen in the southern portions of the colony and far inland, in the direction ot Albury.

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