AFTER THE DROUGHT.
1 5 FIVE MILLION SHEEP DEAD. s , By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright Sydney, Juno 12. The raia has stopped. Reports confirm the statement that the fall was remarkably well distributed. A pastoral expert estimates that five million sheep perished in New South Wales during tho drought just ended. Others will probably Buccumb to weak- ' liess. This represents a shortage of 190,000 bales of wool, of a valuo of ..£2,280,000, to which .£870,000 has to be i added for tho loss of lambs. FLOODS IN QUEENSLAND. Brisbane, Juno 12. ' Further heavy rain has fallen. Some of the rivers are in flood. Railway washaways have been numerous.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1465, 13 June 1912, Page 5
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