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THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA.
down at twenty thousand dollars. Meantime the run has doubled in value, and the investment is paying handsomely.
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CATTLE GOING TO WATER
This is the bright side of the picture. The dark side contains epidemics of pleuro-pneumonia, which has been the ruin of squatters on more than one occasion; added to this is the danger of a severe drought, in which thousands of cattle die of thirst and the inability to get food in consequence of the drying up of the grass. In some years