STOCK DESTROYED BY COLD UNPRECEDENTED DECEMBER WEATHER. 28 Dec 1907
STOCK DESTROYED BY COLD (1907, December 28). The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 – 1954), p. 6. Retrieved December 23, 2020, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/242036196?searchTerm=cold%20december%20weather&searchLimits=#
SHEEP AND CATTLE SUCCUMB.
This Christmas season has already furnished us with two weather records, and now we have to announce a third.
Christmas Day won the hottest ever experienced in Victoria, and the fall of rain from Thursday evening has been the heaviest over known.
Now we learn that last night was the coldest in the month of December in the memory of the
oldest residents in the Diggers Rest district— so bitterly cold, indeed, that large numbers of sheep and cattle perished from exposure to the low temperature.
A well-known and reliable resident of the district to-day forwarded to us a memorandum to the effect that this morning sheep and cattle were lying dead in all directions, having perished
from the intense cold of last night. Mr John Higgins, whose farm is near the township of Diggers’ Rest, lost seven head of dairy cattle.
We have no information as to the lowest temperature during the night on the plains, but the
fact of stock dying in this way is sufficient evidence that the night at Diggers Rest must have been the coldest ever experienced so near Melbourne in December.
The rainfall at Diggers Rest has also been greater than in Melbourne. Up till this morning the record had reached 5 inches 20 points.