DROUGHT IN AUSTRALIA
Sydney, April 9. The weather continues unseasonably hot and dry. The outlook is gloomy, and there are indications of the weather culminating in a disastrous drought unless rain comes soon. It, will be 100 late for winter feed anyhow now, and almoat too luie lv do uoy good before the frosts set in. At the request of the heads of churches the Executive has fixed April 16th as a day of humiliation and prayer for rain. The outlook in Queensland is equally bad, and the same applies to the north-western districts of Victoria. Crops and stock are suffering badly tor want of rain.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7894, 10 April 1897, Page 2
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106DROUGHT IN AUSTRALIA Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7894, 10 April 1897, Page 2
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