TERRIBLE DROUGHT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1812, 6 November 1888, Page 1

TERRIBLE DROUGHT.

." .7 Sydney,.Npyember 2. ' The drought still continues, and the; greatest anxiety prevails,throughoutithe' country. respecting'•'. the. crops in the Ashburnham .district on.itbe.; 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 smajl and the'rJoca'l millers are already buying up all stocks at 5s per. :bushel.: Iu the Mudgee dislricnhe crops have entirely failed.; "whilst in the Wagga Wagga district, hitherto the best-grassed coun- r try on the Murrumbidgee River, the grass is scorched off and. the country presents a mostfparched and bare appearance. The sufferings , of ; stoek are very severe everywhere as the creeks are. drying up and other sources of watersupply in the shape of. tanks 1 are failing, At Warilda, New En/gland, district, bush fires ara raging dafly, and at TulId inga ( alone seven hundred gheep have be n, stations in the" same district have all suffered some /extent 5 . In the ;¥oung "district, brie 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 the most wretched condition through the scarcity of feed and water. Heavy rains have fallen in tho southern parts of the; colony, and far inland in the direction of Albany. November 3, In city arid,some partß of the cbuijuy light rain has 'fallen, but not sufficient to benefit the crops, which are reported to'be in a very bad condition. At Forbes, on the'Lachla'n Jliver, the yield will be very small, -and at Nawra, the, Government township,, at Shoalhaven and at Orange, on,the road from Bathurgt to Wellington, the want of water is being severely felt, . , Brisbane, November 2. A grateful fall of rain has taken place in the Tambo district. i; " "