It gives an idea of what a terrible scourge the bot-fly is, and should lead horseownera to tuke every cart to eradicate the eggs they find lodged on their horses. It shows, further, what fearful sufferings the animals must endure with such a mass of parasites slowly eating away their very vitals, A pathetic picture is given ot the drought in New South Wales by the Broken Hill correspondent of the Sydney Herald. It is killing tens of thousands of sheep and large numbers of cattle and horses. If rain came now it would be too late to save this year's lambs, except in a few favored places where lambing is late. Prom about 50 miles north of Wilcannia down to Wentworth, a distance of about 330 miles along the Darling country, is like a desert, Hardly a blade of herbage or a vestige of bush is left, and poor, miserable-looking frames of sheop, still alive, are wauderiug from one box-tree to another picking up fallen leaves, on which they endeavor to subsist. Out back from tho river at most of tho tanks the sheep are so poor aud weak that when they go in to get a drink they often die at the tanks. The stations keep men to skin and burn them, and also to tako out those that are bogged in the tanks. Several stations have sent large numbers of sheep away to Queensland to try to save their lives, but a heavy per centage of these havo died on the roads. Other stations have men ongaged in cutting scrub feed for tho animals. What makes this drought felt so heavily is that it follows two very dry wiuters, so that really there has been no. feed, except a little herbage, grown for over two yoars. If the present wintor continues dry much longor probably very little stock will be left in this part of the country. One good, however, the drought is doing, and that is it is killing off the rabbits, and there are comparatively few left now. All the small tanks about Broken Hill are dried up, and most of the teamsters, that is, of bullock teams, had to shift for Queensland, as there was no feed left for them. 