BURIED IN SNOW.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 201, 22 August 1912, Page 4

BURIED IN SNOW.

ENORMOUS LOSS OF BBEsp BAD KEPOKIS FROM CAWCEttBDRj

(Or Telegwpi.-Owti CotreipflMo^ ■; ' GBRISTCHLTUJH, .this day. Distreeeing reports are Vine Te cavri of "the heavy mortality amongst t*» flocks in the Amuri district as a resiiU of the recent snowstorms, telegraphs on. Ohristchurch correspondent. The cn o**0** fall between Waiaii and Green Hills °'*" one of the heaviest ever experienced 2 that part of the Amu-n Country, and f other parts it was unusually Severe, ft is estimated that over 10,000 sheen inZ .buried beneath it. The enow is .tm frozen 'hard, and will remain in that con dition until a warm north-west rain o& curs. On the low country, where th sfcorm was not co severe', and ifche eno» [las thawed, dead sheep aTe- being f 0B! in large numbers along the fences aad *here is little 'hope of finding any'JhT on the uplands and hills. Those com pebent to judge believe that 10,000 is a - low estimate of the number of cheep th»t have perished- Heavy losses have bees sustained on all the stations noitliS Waia/u. The smaller settlers, end J? ■tdcularl}- those on the higher couafcre of Gflynne Wy«, have suffered eerW 1 and their losses will give them, a g*! ta.'cik -which some of them can ill aflvj co early in their experience as «W ifarmere. " ' In -the Aimiri there is a-nxiety iwrnj* ing the safety of horses on soa» ofthi stations. Last week a party w«Bt fa search of some (horses over the 'ton 0 { JoUie's Pass, and found them Btftttdut in a creek with the frozen ea<nr sir ■■feet deep along the banks of the strew. By shovelling a track through the snot they were able to get the horses 00J into some bush adjacent, and feed then with green stuff from the *reee. ,1k ihorses iwere almost in the last stages of starvation. It is not yet poesiblt to get the coaches through to Waiau; and ■the mails are being conveyed by 'jackhorses. There is still four feet of m^, lon the WheJeaback, and about Bxteej miles north of Waiau ,there is a • woo i shed, of -wMoh only the roof can V seen. : I ■ •