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The result was, that us the regulatKnin ol' tins 

 gov^rsment tmld jij^ i^wwit the giant td fee 

 eli£mga4 Ht^ wiasebtlged to sell it as a cattle- 

 station^ and purchase huid in n more favourable 

 part of the cyh)iiv for his flocli^=. 



In Decciuber he reinoved tJieni, as a teinjjo- 

 yary measure, to Yas Plains ; some of the ewes 

 ^tmbj^ th&f tei t^tmyved, bat tlie 

 mdrM4 apiH'titc had i&^am^ wifli the rxciting 

 cause, and the lambs Were not attacked by the 

 other ewes. 



At the Murruuibidgee country 1 saw one of 



t^ie Tm^ma& ew^ and bitdl lis Ml bitten oS be- 

 fore it was rescued. The circuuistauie was as 

 follows, wliicli sliows tlic mode of attiiek : — The 

 ewe was laiubingj when six or eight otliers rushed 

 ber^ ha% wer# pr^ir^tei fm& ^ming 

 near by iSm she^lierds ? would not, how^ 



ever, go Si\ray, but kept follow in*^' : aud ;is >ouu 

 as the ewe dropprd her huiili (tli<* slh^jjherds 

 having been engaged for tJie niuuient ill driving 

 away another party ironi another lambing ewe) 

 tt ^ attokei, tail bitten, but they 

 were prcveittWL from ])roeeediug further by the 

 immediate retiiru of tiie -lu idienls. 



They also evinre as iiiaeli eagerness to ih'Vimr 

 llie " c/faii'wifSj" or afler-birlli, if not jU'eveuted ; 



