The Australasian pastoralists' review : a monthly journal and record of all matters affecting the pastoral and landed interests throughout Australasia

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NL 338.1 PAS
Created/Published
Melbourne : Twopenny, Pearce and Co., 1891-1901
Issue
Vol. 1 No. 10 (15 December 1891)
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Notes
Index appears at the beginning of the March issue
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Contents

THE AUSTRALASIAN PASTORALISTS' REVIEW. 1
NOTICE. 1
REMINDER. 1
SUBSCRIPTIONS. 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 1
Union Notes. 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
Weather Report. 5
Record. MONTHLY REPORTS. New South Wales Pastoralists’ Union. 6
Pastoralists’ Union of Victoria. 6
Queensland United Pastoralists’ Association. 6
Management of the A.S.U. and the G.L.U. 7 , 8
A Condemnatory Circular. 8
Shearing in Western Victoria. 8 , 9
The Mount Morris and Kiaeatoo Cases. 9
The Melbourne Wool Trade Difficulty. 9 , 10
Alison v. Burns. 10
Mr. Albert Augustus Dangar. 11 , 12
The Labour Market. 12
The Sheep’s Jacket. 12
News Jottings. 13 , 15 , 16
Advertising 13 , 14 , 17 , 18 , 19
Australasian Pastaralists' Review. Financial Retrogression and the New Trades Unionism. 19 , 20
The Drawbacks of Casual Labour. 20 , 21
Can a Market be Found for Our Surplus Merino Mutton? 21 , 22
Notes on the Merino. 22 , 23
Poisoned Stick v. Poisoned Wheat. 23
Pastoral Notes. 24 , 25
Light Literature. A Far-Inland Christmastide. 26 , 27 , 28 , 29
A Piebald Ghost. 29 , 30
The Sick Bushman in the City. 30
Round the Camp Fire. 31 , 32
The American Rain-making’ Experiments. 32
The Frojen Meat Trade. Over-production of Sheep and Subsidy to Meat Export. 33 , 34
Lord Onslow’s Experiment. 34
Azoturia in Horses and Cattle. 34
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 35
Encouragement to Meat Export. 35
Fancies in Breeding. 35 , 36
Mr. Fetherstonhaugh’s Letter. 36
Handling of Wool in London. 36
Legal. Partnership in Selection.-N.S.W. Land Act. 36
Practical Hints to Small Sheepowners. 37 , 38
Corns in Horses’ Feet. 38
Review. John Brown and his Pass-book. 39 , 40
New Sheep-Shearing’ Machine in England. 40
The Wool Trade. The Australian Situation, 40 , 41
Our London Letter. 41 , 42
Review of Pastoral Situation. New South Wales. 43 , 44
Victoria. 44 , 45
Queensland. 45 , 46
South Australia. 46 , 47 , 48
New Zealand. 48 , 49
New Zealand Sheep Returns. 49
Sales of Station Property. 49
The Rabbit Question. 50
Advertising 50
The Australsian Pastoralists’ Review. CONTENTS. 51
LIST OF ADVERTISEMENTS. 51
Advertising 51 , 52

Text

THE  

AUSTRALASIAN PASTORALISTS' REVIEW.  

MONTHLY JOURNAL AND RECORD  

Of all matters affecting the Pastoral and Landed Interests throughout Australasia.  

No. 10.  

SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, DECEMBER 15, 1891.  

Yol. I.  

NOTICE.  

The “ Australasian Pastoralists ’ Review ” has been established at  

the instance, and with the official support of the Federated Pastoralists’  

Unions of New South Wales, Victoria, United Queensland, and South  

Australia, for the defence of their common interests and the pro-  

motion of the pastoral industry.  

REMINDER.  

Pastorahsts are respectfully reminded that it is greatly to their  

interest to have an organ of their own, and that they can do great  

deal to assist and tmprove it by inducing friends to become subscribers,  

and by writing letters to the Editor upon any topic that they think  

can be profitably discussed. It tv as only by the cordial co-operation  

of all connected xcith the pastoral industry that useful representa-  

tive paper can be produced.  

SUBSCRIPTIONS.  

The terms of subscription are One Pound Steeling per annum,  

payable in advance. All orders should be addressed to the Manager,  

either at 63 Pitt-street, Sydney, or 473 Collins-street, Melbourne,  

TABLE OF CONTENTS.  

The table of contents and list of advertisements will be found  

on the preceding page, at the bask of the Union Steamship Com-  

pany of New Zealand's advertisement. This change of position has  

been necessitated by the increasing length of these tables, which notv  

require greater space than can be given in single column.  

Union Notes.  

From the outset we have taken no hostile attitude to trades  

unionism, an organisation which we have always cordially  

admitted has, when wisely, moderately, and honestly conducted,  

done good service to the working classes. We have, however,  

assailed continuously and fearlessly the rottenness of the new  

trades unionism that nowadays finds most vogue in these colonies.  

The Amalgamated Shearers’ Union has especially come in for the  

application of the lash, for it may be safely contended that so far  

as its leadership and management are concerned, there is no greater  

organised fraud anywhere to he met with. No body such as the  

Amalgamated Shearers’ Union can hope to obtain permanent posi-  

tion in the community and perform for its members lasting work of  

usefulness without adherence to strict code of honour, not merely  

to the men who are enrolled under its banner, but to their oppo-  

nents and to the general public. As we have shown times and  

again in the columns of the Review, to each and all of these three  

sections there have been on the part of the A.S.U. almost con-  

tinuous breaches of good faith.  

♦  

In our November issue we disclosed in our leading article how  

the accredited representatives of the A.S.U. came to the Sydney  

conference in August last under secret compact that any settle-  

ment arrived at was not to be permanent one, but merely an expe-  

dient to gain time. This compact was drawn up in Melbourne  

shortly prior to the conference, and yet at the close of the sittings  

in Sydney Mr. Spence had the audacity to express the hope that  

“the settlement was final one,” and that “the last of any  

troubles had been reached.” As we have written, the compact to  

render the conference nugatory was arrived at prior to the conven-  

tion itself. We shall now show that subsequent to the proceedings,  

the A.S.U. leaders, notwithstanding the amicable views they  

expressed in Sydney in August last, are silently hut deliberately  

acting up to the secret compact, and are utilising the present  

period of peace merely to prepare for further trouble. We hold in  

our hands letter signed by Mr. David Temple, secretary of the  

A.S.U., written on the official paper of the organisation, dated  

two months subsequent to the conference, and addressed to shed  

representative and official of the A.S.U. In this letter occur the  

following sentences —“ Scabs are all joining. If we find that  

any won’t join we can stand out against working with them as soon  

as xve have strengthened our position .” Here we have written  

and conclusive proof, if such were needed, that the Sydney  

proceedings are being treated as farce by the men who are  

responsible for the conduct of the A.S.U. business. We un-  

hesitatingly say that this line of action is gross breach of faith,  

not merely to the Pastoralists’ Unions, but to the public of  

Australia, and more especially to that section of representative  

men, including Mr. James Service in Victoria and Sir Henry  

Parkes in New South Wales, who so loudly called upon the  

pastoralists to enter into an open conference with the labour body.  

 

 

The wrong, however, is one that is actually also directed against  

the members of the A.S.U. From some interesting correspondence  

which we publish in the Eecord section of the Review, it will be  

learned that member of the General Labourers’ Union, taking  

general report as his authority, objects to his organisation entering  

into further strife with the pastoralists merely on the ground that  

certain leaders desire to have “ further go at the squatters.” The  

writer of this letter clearly represents the moderate section of  

pastoral employes, who are content to work amicably under the  

fair terms offered, mutually for the benefit of themselves and their  

employers. Towards such follower Mr. Spence does not hesitate  

to assume an entirely different attitude to that which he takes up  

when addressing the firebrands and mischief-makers among his  

adherents. In his reply he writes to his correspondent as follows:  

“ You are wrong in asserting that the officers are rallying for  

another fight.” Yet, at the very same time that Mr. Spence wrote  

these words, his secretary, Mr. David Temple, deliberately stated,  

as above shown, to shed representative corresponding with him,  

the intention of the union to fight again the moment that their  

position was sufficiently strengthened. revelation like this  

should serve to show men of moderate mind in the A.S.U.  

organisation how they are being led by the nose, quite regardless  

of all truth and honour, for the selfish ends of few reckless men.  

The correspondence discloses some other interesting features of  

the situation. From it we see that as the fruit of the exposures  

made during the last twelve months in our columns and in the  

Press generally by the secretaries of the Pastoralists’ Unions of  

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