THE RECENT SEVERE WEATHER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10418, 22 July 1895, Page 3

THE RECENT SEVERE WEATHER

> luformaiion has be'en received in Timaru that a young maD named Home, a rabbiter on -.i-1-.r.r, t,l-nH„^ ~-.A„ .._'... I 11.. v ■ ,

naiuon sianon, roue away irom: the homestead with a message to no great' distance, aud on returning was caught in a blizzard.' The horse took him back to the station, where the young man had to be lifted off the saddle, frozen stiff. He was well rubbed with Snow, but both legs are severely fcost-bftten.' The'horse died after the^-urney. Mr M'lnto _, head shepherd on Ashwiok station, whilst oub'af tec the theop, was caught in a snowslip carried-half'a-milo down hill. He was nofc buried, and was got home very much bruised.—Lyttelton Times. Serious losses continue to be reported from* the up-country stations, especially the Upucr Waitatti, Hakateramea, and. Mackenzie. Ou one station alone in the Hakntotamea Valley a loss of 40,000 s'ueap is expected, but ifc is impossible to arrivo at a proper estimate of tbe loss until the snow has -inappearert and the ruus have been examined.—Timaru Herald. We are informed that (io far. as the Kurow side of the Upper Waitaki ia concer'ued the les' of shc.p by the recent snowstorm will not be anything like as gr_at a. was supposed,' It is g-atityiug to know that;the stations on the south side of the Waitaki-will nofc suffer to anything like the cxlenfc "we "were led to believe. Still, there are other places where the snow yet lies deep, and where the- sheep have had neither shelter uor food for many weeks. As au evidence cf what .keep will do to maintain life, we^ may mention that some of the Land Com*pany's sheep were caught in the recent snowstorm on the Kakanui mountains:'-Before they were discovered 50 had d'ed, and the remaining 100 had eaten every pnrticto'ot' wool off their bodie3. The sheep could uoc have been ehorn closer.—North Otago Times. • • . The Wost Coast road is still oo'vei&d wifcii scow. Thirty men ar.c at work ou 'Porter's P»ss clearing a track through* fche snow. They started work on June' 25, but the track ha 3 twice bson lilltd up by, futther falls of snow. Another gang of men is working up the Bea'.ey to opeu a track for wheeled traffic to Jacksop's. The miils.are being {JacSted.from Springfigld to Craigieburn, and then taken ou to'Otira Afc the Castle Hill station it is .hoped that; most of tho sheep will be saved,, as a number of them have gathered in'the bush., 'At the Craigieburn station the sheep aro .fairly well off. Afc the Grasmere sfcatibii' there-;- is ' a considerable area,-'clear'of''Sricw.- - -The, 'foil - of * snow at Lake' Colcridge'vand Mount White is deeper, but it is not known what the losses will be •— Lyttelton Times.