The [[Shearers|wool]] season has now closed, and the quantity of wool brought to [[Echuca|Echuca]] by water is larger than ever. In all over 91,000 bales of [[Murray River at Kellygang|river]]-borne wool have reached Echuca, or 7,000 bales more than last year. A great deal of wool is still left on the Darling frontages and the Murrumbidgee and Lachlan back country. In the case of the Darling wool, the river is too low to permit of its transportation steamers, and in the other two cases the scarcity of water along the tracks prevents the teams from travelling, as the bullocks drop down and die from the heat.
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