GREAT EXODUS FROM SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
FARMERS. STARVED OUT.
Adelaide, February Bth. The exodus from Port Adelaide during the week ending last Saturday exceedecf the influx by eighty-eight. What is even worse than the exodus by sea is the continuous depletion of 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 av/aysettlen- from the new hundreds in the dry north-east. The principal goal of these immigrants is tho north-western country of Victoria. On Monday quite a small caravan of farriers, v/ith ■ their families waggons, and stock, left Willingra district overland for the Wimmera, Pitiable taiga come from the north coast, whare selectors have been starving- along for six or seven years past, toiling" against hope in the face of a pitiless climate, which refuses to briiiothe parched wheat plant to maturity/ There is also considerable exodus of agriculturists from Yorke's Peninsula.
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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 36, 13 February 1888, Page 3
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