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Mataura Ensign, 18 March 1909, Page 3

lu sumo part* of South l \i 111 erliun" (•■ays the Timaru Hcrald'i a peculiar •lipase is at present playing havoc among larnbj, and great hat. beeu suffered by soiUB furniers in consequence. The disease does not conlino itself tn small or poor-conditkned lamb.-, but attacks the big ones as well, and kill- tiiein in a very bhort time. Change of feed aud other remedies hau» but without success. By some it i s considered that rust and ilu-t. on the Kras> is at the bottom of tb" trouble, nud that it would disappear with a pood rain to clear nlld freshen tho pastures. Some farmers have expensed their iuteution of calling in the >er\ices of veterinary burgeon to examine »omo ul' the dead lmub», nnd thus as-certain if P"s*ible the cau6e uf and a remedy for tho trouble. Speaking at u banquet in flui-tchiinh tendered to the New Zealand ol Oddfellows, Mr Ell, MR, referred to the coining session of Parliament aud the problems that would theu come up lor ■discussion. Tho unemployed difficulty, he said, would have to be seriously considered; but it could not Ijo handled lt.v New Zealand alone or by any other C"iuitry without the co-operation <'l the i»t of the world. Mr T. E. Taylor, Ml' nlso laid particular stress on tho fact that the question of dealing with the unemployed would h#TB to be considered Tory seriously. It '' a* only a muttei of five years, he said, and it would be ! - »ible for a man to go to tbe Government and, after say ins: that he had faithfully discharged the duties of citizenship a"'! was a g-xxl citixen, demand the rijrht twork. Tbe future was full of social problem. There could be no political rest for the Dominion when there were 60 many wrones to be righted aud so roeuy defects to be remedied.