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price of commodities; while the large floating 

 population of btishmen experience scarcity of 

 work consequent upon the diminution of the 

 flocks. It is no matter for surprise, then, that 

 the Australian inventor sets himself seriously to 

 the task of rain-making; or that an Australian 

 public man declared that "a week's steady rain 

 was worth more to Australia than all the gold 

 mines of the West." 



