CAUGHT BY THE TIDE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 560, 15 July 1909, Page 8

CAUGHT BY THE TIDE.

fiOO SITEISP DIIOWNKD." ' As briefly reported, last week, practically tho whole of tho Squall's shipment of uliwin from Gisborno woro drownod in tho so* off 'Taurnngn, after being landed. It appears that tho flock, containing CIS ewes, wero landed by tho Squall in good order and condition at H a.m. on Wednesday, July 7, and - given in charge of a drover. Ho tailed them out to tho camp on tho north nido of tho town, mi (I tho.y wcro watered, almost immediately after boing landed, and appeared to havo settled down. ..At VIM lift went to luiich, when everything was all right, hut on coming out'about an hour later tho sheep woro nil in tho sea and drowned, with tho exception of five whioh wore immediately pulled out. ■ \J Tho theory 'advanced m to how tho sheep got into tho water i» that thoy wandered along tho beach until thoy got to tho extreme end of tho .namlspifc, .Tho-lido was coming in at tho time, and tho son name in at tho hack of them, and as tho tide ran very fnsfc at that point,- thoy woro all washed into the sea beforo anything could bo done. At 2 o'clock most of tho drowned sheep wero from Ono'to'two miles out to isca. '.All tho dead sheep that ooiild ho procured wero skinned, It is stated 4hat sheep have been loft-on tho samo ground many limos without mishap. ' / .