THE AUSTRALIAN DROUGHT.
IMPORTATION OF WHB4T. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Stdnei, Janua 1 y 14. The firs'; of tho wheat fl et from San Francisco has arrived, bringing 38,000 eackc. Melbourne, January 14. The State Premier, Mr Ir vire, states th it he has heard nothing further wi'h reference to the offer if seed wheat, jfrom ihe people of New Z aland, upon I which Mr Seddon stated that his Government would pay freight. Mr Irvine expresses tne view that news of rec-'&t copious tains in Australia may have retarded the movei ment in New Zealand and that tbe people there now think that there is no necessity for assistance.
* No less than 1600 apppcations have been rcceivfd by Ihe Victorian Minister for Lands from farmers and selectors who suffered by the drought for assistance under the Seed Wheat Advances Act. ThfSfl setMers are located in nil par's of the Stat?, but priccipally in the Mallee country,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 12, 15 January 1903, Page 3
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156THE AUSTRALIAN DROUGHT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 12, 15 January 1903, Page 3
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