The following is a return of the sheep in the Otago district for the year ended May 31st. The total number of sheep was | 3,912,409, made up as follows : —Merinos, males 888,837, females 1,077,161 ; longwools, male-* 38,729, females 6*2,853 ; crossbreds, males 678,305, females 1,166,524. There was a decrease in the number of sheep in the counties of Waitaki, Maniototo, Vincent, Lake, Waihemo, Waikouaiti, and Taieri, and an increase in the Peninsula, Bruce, Clutha, Tuapeka, Southland (Tapanui division), Southland (Southland division), and Wallace. The total increase over the number of sheep in the district in the year ending May 31st, 1889, was 77,471. | A Napier Press Association telegram states j that the sheep returns show that on May j 31st last, the number of sheep in the ! Hawke's Bay district was 3,558,257, an increase of 363,473 in the year, 1
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8355, 8 September 1890, Page 10
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