Masterton News.
DESTRUCTION OF SHEEP BY WILD DOGS. (Special to the Examiner.) Masterton, This Day. Some of the settlers between the Upper Taurau, Alfredtown, have for years been losing sheep in large numbers. Thousands have been missed, and the impression gain :d ground that extensive sheep stealing was going on, some of the settlers suspecting their neighbours. It is now found that owing to; the clearing of the bush, the blocks owned by absentee proprietors are the haunts of large packs of wild dogs, which are doing the misehief. In one instance a mob of sheep was discovered rounded up by the dogs on a piece of tableland, and when rescued they were on the point of being rushed over a precipice. The bulk of the wild dogs are of a particular species—large, with short white hair, and black spots.
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Woodville Examiner, Volume VIII, Issue 868, 10 February 1892, Page 2
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140Masterton News. Woodville Examiner, Volume VIII, Issue 868, 10 February 1892, Page 2
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