SOUTHERN WEATHER.
' MANY SHEEP IN PERIL. , .'- RABBtTERS FROST-BITTEN. Mr.: J. §_,■ Rutherford, who oame down from Mistfkc Station, near the head of Lake Tekapo, jlasß Tuesday, was in town on Saturday : (s'ajs.,;aTirharu Press Association nics- , sage).-'. reports that the Tokapo Valley and all<,tjie eastern and southern side and the eastern, part of .the. Mackenzie Plain, are in ,a . verjj.'.bad state, and that there is likely to be,)f}n..almost total loss.of sheep in those .quarters,-while in the Tasman Valley the . Biiow'/all .was, light.. Nothing can bo dono to saVe,,tho -sheep on tho bad country,-.for there/Is barely any ground to shift them to axc-Mt' .the, .bare tops of ridges, which are win&sVept. All the roads in the Fairlie and Ajbury districts are full of sheep that have been got off the front ranges, which art- also very heavily snow-clad. The country sfiow plough had not yet been got through Burke's Pass, and. beyond there were oiilv the/rough tracks niado by the tramp , of horses. Horses are being brought out of thtf, snowed-tip country stations short of hors'u feed. ' : Sorae ifabbitc-rs on :Hakatcrca reached tho Cifa'mpians badly frost-bitten.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 260, 27 July 1908, Page 3
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183SOUTHERN WEATHER. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 260, 27 July 1908, Page 3
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