As a result of the Christmas snowstorm (says the Marlborough Exnress) between 5000 and 6000 newly-shorn hoggets wore lost on the Molesworth Estate. The manager states that during the whole of his experience he has never encountered so severe a storm.
After swimming across the Ribble Estuary from Marshside, near Southport, a distance of several miles, a horse be. longing to a farmer, landed safely at Lytham and wauue-red to Blackpool, whera it was secured.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2913, 12 January 1910, Page 66
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