A novel case of sheep-worrying occurred A short time since on a farm in the old country, where a horse and a sheep were grazing in the same field. The horse seized the sheep by the back and tossed it, tore some mouthfuls of wool from the fleece, got the sheep by the tail, again tossed it, and when it fell stamped upon it with its hoofs, and kicked it to death. • ' I' * As showing the value of sheep in . Scotland, the stock of Mr. J. D. Bell-Irving, a retiring tenant in Dumfriesshire, were recently valued over to the proprietor at the following rates :Cheviot ewes and single half-bred lambs, 44s per ewe and lamb; Cheviot ewes and twin half-bred lambs, best, 50s; others, 445; shott ewes, 30s \ r eilcl ewes, best, 30s; ehotta, 20§; ewe hoggs, 265. . ■ " ' ! . A meeting of the Komata Gold Mining Company will be held at Waiteksiuri on the 27th IDSt. ' v - (
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8960, 18 August 1892, Page 5
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