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Fix this textA MONTHLY JOURNAL AND RECORD
Fix this textOf all matters affecting the Pastoral and Landed Interests throughout Australasia.
Fix this textNo. 10.
Fix this textDECEMBER 15, 1897.
Fix this textYol, VII.
Fix this textNOTICES.
Fix this textThe Review of the Pastoeal Situation contains letters from
Fix this textspecial correspondents in New South Wales, Queensland (North and
Fix this textSouth), Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania,
Fix this textNew Zealand (North and South), ARGENTINA, SOUTH
Fix this textAFRICA, and Great Britain.
Fix this textThe Manager desires to make intimation to our Queensland
Fix this textsubscribers that, notwithstanding the recent postal regulations,
Fix this textthe Review will be forwarded to Queensland addresses without
Fix this textany extra charge.
Fix this textEditorial Notes.
Fix this textOur reports this month are not very bright from any colony
Fix this textexcept New Zealand; and in south-western Queensland the drought
Fix this textis producing heavy losses of both sheep and cattle. The coastal dis-
Fix this texttricts of both New South Wales and Queensland had good rains at
Fix this textthe beginning of the month, but they only penetrated into the
Fix this textinterior in odd places. The development of the wool market
Fix this textduring the month has been distinctly unfavourable, the chief
Fix this textcharacteristic being its uncertainty. The London meat market
Fix this textis at last beginning to show slight signs of improvement,
Fix this textand a further rise may be regarded as probable during
Fix this textthe coming month. For harvesting the dry weather has
Fix this textbeen favourable, and the crops, though mostly poor, will suffice for
Fix this textAustralian requirements and obviate any necessity for American
Fix this textimportations. For most pastoralists we fear that this will not be
Fix this texta very merry Christmas, though there are exceptionally favoured
Fix this textdistricts like Gippsland, and there are more isolated patches of
Fix this textgood season scattered over the continent than are taken into
Fix this textaccount in general lamentations. To all, however, we heartily wish
Fix this text“ A Happy New Year.”
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Fix this textIn our issue of July last we commented upon the somewhat
Fix this textextravagant estimates of the losses in sheep consequent upon
Fix this textthe recent drought in New South Wales, and we then pointed
Fix this textout that the number of lambs marked would, in all proba-
Fix this textbility, largely exceed the number set down in such estimates.
Fix this textThe number of lambs estimated as the net result of the autumn
Fix this textand winter lambings was at that time set down at 2,000,000, but
Fix this textfrom the New South Wales returns up to date the actual number
Fix this textof lambs marked was 5,255,355, or 39J per cent, of the total
Fix this textnumber of breeding ewes put to the ram. Last year the number
Fix this textof lambs marked from the autumn and winter lambings was
Fix this text8,097,287, or 58 per cent, on the number of ewes put to the ram, so
Fix this textthe deficiency caused by the drought of 1897 may be put down at
Fix this text18J per cent. From the shearing returns we have seen the
Fix this textdeficiency in grown sheep is not so serious as might have been
Fix this textexpected, but the sheep all round have cut considerably lighter
Fix this textfleeces than last year, which will account for the deficiency in the
Fix this textnumber of bales in the clip of 1897 as compared with that of 1896.
Fix this textAs we pointed out in July last, the actual loss of sheep is not
Fix this textnearly so heavy as was estimated, for the deficiency in numbers is
Fix this textto a considerable extent accounted for by the increased numbers of
Fix this textsheep sold through the yards at Homebush, boiled down, and ex-
Fix this textported as frozen mutton. These all mean a cash return to the
Fix this textgrowers, although that return may only have been a small one, so
Fix this textthat the deficiency in the number of grown sheep cannot be re-
Fix this textgarded as a total loss. It is satisfactory to hear from the country
Fix this textwhere the drought was most severely felt that, although the recent
Fix this textabnormal heat had dried up the herbage and grass, stock are still
Fix this textin strong condition, if not actually fat, though this does not apply
Fix this textto south-western Queensland.
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Fix this textSir Hugh Nelson’s reply to the deputation of cattle-growers
Fix this textfrom North Queensland, which waited upon him to ask for some
Fix this textreduction in the rents of their holdings in consideration of the
Fix this textdamage caused by the tick plague to their holdings and stock, was
Fix this textfar from satisfactory. It seems to us that the only form in which
Fix this textthe Government could make any concession to the pastoralists
Fix this textwho have suffered so severely from the plague is in the reduction
Fix this textof their rents, and the promise of Sir Hugh Nelson to subsidise a
Fix this textline of steamers to carry chilled meat to southern ports really
Fix this textamounts to nothing. We pointed out in these columns some
Fix this textmonths ago the numerous factors which would combine to make
Fix this textthe establishment of an intercolonial trade in chilled meat a
Fix this textmatter of virtual impossibility from a practical business point of
Fix this textview, and we do not see that the conditions affecting the trade have
Fix this textaltered materially since then, or that Sir Hugh Nelson’s offer is likely
Fix this textto make very much difference. In the long run we think a reduction
Fix this textin the rents would be the cheapest for the Government, inasmuch
Fix this textas the proposed subsidy would require to be a very heavy one to
Fix this textinduce steamers to fit up refrigerating machinery and insulated
Fix this textchambers and carry on a regular trade in chilled meat. Another
Fix this textimportant point is that the supply of fat cattle from the tick districts
Fix this textis a very fluctuating one, and unless the trade were continuous we
Fix this textdo not think there would be any likelihood of the consumption of
Fix this textsuch meat being established in the southern colonies. At the pre-
Fix this textsent time the meat works on the Queensland coast are all idle for
Fix this texta considerable season in the year, owing to the difficulty of obtain-
Fix this texting cattle to keep them working, and i f this is found to be the case
Fix this textwith the meat works where large numbers of cattle not fit for
Fix this textexport as butchers’ meat are treated in other ways, it would apply
Fix this textwith much greater force to a chilled meat trade where none but
Fix this textthe primest cattle could be dealt with.
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Fix this textThe question of the renewal of leases of pastoral holdings
Fix this textsituated in the settled districts of Queensland is now agitating the
Fix this textpublic mind in Brisbane. Some of these leases are expiring, and
Fix this texta good many of them have expired, and the lessees now hold their
Fix this textruns under a yearly occupation license—a form of tenure practiq
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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