WATER FAMINE.
PRAYERS FOR RAIN AT
BROKEN HILL.
, - Sydney, this day. j The water, famine ati Broken Hill is severely felt ■by residents. Ten shillings per hundred gallons is charged for water,- and many poor people are using mineralised water taken.from the mines. - . ■ : .
A water .train,'brought-.three.-pints per head yesterday, but if the drought continues this source will be insufficient to suppLy the populace.. Prayers for rain are offered upin the churches every day.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 309, 31 December 1891, Page 5
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