END OF AUSTRALIA'S DROUGHT

West Coast Times, 13 June 1912, Page 3

END OF AUSTRALIA'S DROUGHT

OVER THREE MILLIONS LOSS.

TEU PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTIUGHt.'J

SYDNEY, June 12,

the pastoral expert estimates that five million sheep perished in New South Wales during the drought just ended, and cithers probably have succumbed owing to woakneos, representing a shortage of 190,000 hales of woo] of a value of £2,280,000 whereto £B7O, 000 can bo added for the loss of lambs.

rain ceases.

SYDNEY, Juno 12,

The rain has stopped. Reports confirm that it was remarkably well distributed.

THE OTHER EXTREME, BRISBANE, Juno 11. 1' nrthor heavy rain is tailing some rivers to bo flooded and railway wasli aways aro numerous. • -