THE AUSTRALIAN DROUGHT.
SYDNEY, November 15.
The position of the White Cliffs diamond field is becoming desperate through the drought; There has been one death from starvation, and others are suffering distressing privations iTarnilies are subsisting on flour and water. The miners have had no meat for six weeks, and their strongest sustenance has been bread and jam. The sanitary condition of the place owing to the want 6f water is a serious menace. MELBOUBNE, November 15. The Cabiflet has decided to supply seed wheat to the Mailee farmers whose crops are ruined by the drought.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 273, 17 November 1902, Page 6
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