A Feabftjl State op Things.— lf reliance can be placed on the statement of the Carcoar correspondent of the Bathurst Free Press, a more terrible instance of the effects of drought can scarcely be given than the following : — " The district is crowded with travelling sheep, there being upwards of two hundred thousand in it at the present time, hundreds of which are dying daily, and not one-fourth of them will live to return to their stations. #If rain does not come soon they will perish for the want of wator, and if rain does come they will die from cold and weakness; for I am certain that six hours' rain would kill fifty thousand of them."
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1027, 2 March 1869, Page 2
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