TERRIBLE DROUGHT IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 871, 9 November 1888, Page 26

TERRIBLE DROUGHT IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Bv Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.

(per press association.)

Sydney, November 2. The drought still continues,’aiid the greatest anxiety prevails throughout tho country respecting the crqpffl.' , la the Ashburnham district on the Lachlan River, it is almost impossible.that there can be auy wheat harvest this season. Indeed, the wheat harvest for the whole colony must be very small, and local millers are already buying up stocks at 5s per bushel. In the Mudgee district the crops , have entirely failed, whilst in the Wagga Wagga district, hitherto the best grassed country on the‘Murrumbidgee River, the grass is scorched off, and the country presents a most parched and bare appearance. The sufferings of the stock- are very severe everywhere, as the creeks are drying up, and other sources , of water supply, in the shape of tanks, are failing. At Wariaida, " New England district, bush fires are raging daily, and at Tulloona station alone 700 Bheep have been destroyed, whilst other stations in the same district have all suffered to some extent. In the Young district; one of the chief agricultural districts of the colony, the crops are an entire failure, and news has been received from the “ back blocks ” that stock there is in a most wretched condition through the scarcity of feed and water.