Show DROUTH IN AUSTRALIA los of stock occasioned by lack 0 water A dispatch from sydney N S W gives an account of the terrible drouth from wn ch as a cl to seven dry years australia is now suffering the dispatch says that the losses in stock in australia since 1899 amount to over 15 unemployed men are drift ing into the cities by thousands and there the state governments are pro viding them with relief sheep are dying by the million and even the rabbits are starving animals have stripped the bark from the trees for food A common method of treating exhausted horses is to slit the animals palate with a knife the horse is revived by swallowing his own blood numbers of sundowners and swag pen have been found dead by the wayside the governments aber doing everything possible to alleviate these conditions but meteorologists despair of any change in the weather con editions |