SECOND EDITION.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 103, 29 October 1888, Page 3

SECOND EDITION.

TUB DROUGHT IN NEW sourir walks. ■» A TERRIBLE RECORD OP DISASTER. I UNITED PRESB ASSOCIATION. I (Received October 29, 2.15 p.m.) Stdnkt, This Day. . There are no signs of the drought breaking up. In many parts of the colony the f lermometer stands at 103 in the shade. In fie immediate neighbourhood of Howlong the heat is not quite so bat) -but in other parts' of the same district the .orops are almost bjyond hopo. At Broken Hill, trains conveying water are arriving daily, and • thoir freight is being sold at 4s per 100 gallons. la the Eden Distriot (towards tho coast) heavy rains have fallen, and the country will be able to hold out some time. ' The Nowrn, distriot is extremely dry, and disastrous bnsh fires are raging in all directions. On one station alone, 20,000 aores of grass have been destroyed. At Gundagai r tin baa fortunately fallen over the farming areas, but in Argylo many settlors are sailing off their stook, fearing tho disastrous rasu 1 -« of a dry season. The orops in that quarter are also suffering greatly, and potato planting has entirely ceased. Noir Inverell sheep are dying in laree numbers At Kempsey grass is still abnndant. Bush fires are also devastating Namoi district. Hurra Burra station has been burned out, and seteral runs m Walgett and Moree havo boon destroyed.