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. 3 No. 5 (15 July 1893)
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Notes
Index appears at the beginning of the March issue
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Contents

No title 1
Review of pastoral Situation. New South Wales. 2 , 3
Victoria. 3 , 4
Queensland. 4 , 5
South Australia. 5 , 6
Western Australia. 6
Tasmania. 6 , 7
New Zealand. 7 , 8
United States of America. 8 , 9
The Wool Trade. 9 , 10
Our London Letter. 10 , 13
Advertising 11
CIRCULAR. 12
Advertising 14
Screwing Down Artesian Bores. 15
Advertising 15
News Jottings. 16
Advertising 17 , 18 , 19
Australasian Pastoralists’ Review. Polities and Progress. 19 , 20
The Frozen Meat Trade. 20 , 21
The Truth about Paraguay. 21 , 22 , 23
Central Division Leases (N.S.W.) 23 , 24
A Cure for Fluke in Sheep. 24 , 25
Heredity. 25 , 26
The Annual Sale of Stud Sheep in Sydney. 26 , 27 , 28
Rainfall Tables—June, 1893. 28
Stock and Station Notes. 29 , 30
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 31
Letting Land on the “Half” Principle. To the Editor of the Australasian Pastoralists’ Review. 31
Re Shearing1 Machines. (To the Editor of the Australasian Pastoralists’ Review.) 31
The Price of Sheep in New Zealand. To the Editor of the A ustralasian Pastoralists’ Review. 31
Artesian Water in Queensland. To the Editor of the Australasian Pastoralists’ Review. 31 , 32
Elastic or Dropper Fencing. To the Editor of the Australasian Pastoralists' Review. 32
New Rabbit Poison Distributor. 32
Answers to Correspondents. 33
Labour Notes. 33
An Improvement to the Wolseley Shearing Machine. 34
The Frojen Meat Trade. Items. 34 , 35
A Melbourne Experience. 35
An Albury Experience. 35
CROSS-BREEDING. An Important Discussion.—New Zealand Experience. 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43
Our Book-Shelf in the Bush. All hooks, novels, or publications intended for review must reach our Sydney or Melbourne offices not later than the 20th of the month. 44
World’s Fair Notes. 45
Record. The Pastoralists’ Union of New South Wales. THIRD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 46 , 47 , 48 , 49
Pastoralists’ Association of Victoria and Southern Riverina. SHEARERS’ ENGAGEMENTS. 49
Advertising 49
Publishers’ Department 50
Artesian Boring Notes. 50

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deal to avoid as well as to imitate. Thus it came out recently  

that out of the ninty-six original members of the Wellington  

Special Settlement Association, just seven are left in actual  

occupation of their sections out of forty-six at Woodville only  

one is now residing; out of the Masterton-Hawera Association of  

thirty-two, three are left. No less than 349 “transfers” for  

valuable consideration are actually recorded on the books of  

department which, the people were told, was never going to sully  

itself by dealings with dummies for ever! In one locality in the  

North Island recently over half the “settlers” have immediately  

sold the sections they drew at premiums of from 20s. to 30s. an  

acre—that is to say, they simply pocketed that huge premium for  

doing nothing more than dipping their hands into lucky bag.  

Of the 900 original special settlers of whom the Government are  

wont to boast, 700 have already proved to be bogus. These facts  

and figures speak for themselves as to the claim of the present  

“ Liberal” Government of New Zealand to have restored prosperity  

by settling the population upon the land. It is certain that  

great deal of genuine settlement is going on in New Zealand, but  

not on any lines in which the new Land Act differs materially  

from its predecessors. Mr. Scobie Mackenzie told no more than  

the bare truth when he said that the present policy of the New  

Zealand Government is policy of imposture.  

♦ ♦  

Mr. Oscar de Satge writes an interesting letter to the Brisbane  

Courier upon the folly of exporting ill-dressed beef and mutton,  

and landing in the London market meat which has not been  

properly frozen before leaving the colony. More than once we  

have issued warnings based on New Zealand experience of the  

importance of securing good name for Australian meat, and the  

facility with which bad name is acquired. Queensland has  

been particularly unfortunate in her trial trips in the meat export  

trade. But she has the advantage of being able to send beef as  

well as mutton, and if she can only conquer the bone-taint  

difficulty, which we have no doubt she will with little more expe-  

rience carefully investigated, her future as meat-exporting  

country should not be second to that of New Zealand. There are  

some six million cattle in Queensland at present. This represents  

an annual cost of some 600,000 head fit for market, if market  

can be found. Allowing 125,000 for internal, and another 175,000  

for intercolonial, consumption, there should be an export to Europe  

of at least quarter of million head upon the present stock only.  

 

It is essentially British characteristic that the victor in battle  

can hold out helping hand to his vanquished foe, and Mr. William  

Allan, M.L.A., president of the United Pastoralists’ Association of  

Queensland, has just shown us that the traditions of the race are  

not dead in Australia. Through his intervention two prisoners  

convicted and sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for lawless  

proceedings during the great strike against the pastoralists in 1891  

have had their sentences commuted, and are to be shortly liberated  

from St. Helena prison. The action of the president of the  

Pastoralists’ Association is worthy of all commendation, and we  

congratulate our northern pastoralists on the graceful act of their  

president, and their ability to assist defeated foe and temper  

justice with mercy.  

 

An American newspaper, referring to the subject, uses words  

which apply with equal weight in Australia, and we, therefore,  

make no apology for reproducing them as follows —“ It was high  

time, indeed, that American courts of justice had interposed to  

place severe check upon the aggressive lawlessness of the labour  

unions. These bodies have been so much coddled by the politicians,  

and they have had so much adulation from the press, that some of  

them have really acquired the impression that they could do very  

much as they pleased. And how far the newspaper press  

has been willing to stoop to placate the unions may be perceived  

from the further fact that respectable journals actually defended  

the monstrous theory upon which the Homestead rioters proceeded  

to commit murder. That theory was completely overthrown by  

one of the local courts in Pittsburg, and now the United States  

courts have done good service in applying the law to others of the  

thories upon which the unions have been in the habit of acting.  

The broad ground upon which all the decisions stand is that no  

citizen or body of citizens may infringe upon the legal rights of other  

citizens. workman may hire himself or refuse to hire himself,  

in given case, as he will; but he cannot exclude another man  

from the place which he himself will not take. He may surrender  

position, but not in such manner as to inflict damage upon  

anybody. He may belong to labour union, but he may not  

persecute anybody who prefers not to belong to the union. He  

may work for an employer or he may decline to work for him, but  

he has no right to any kind of control of the employer’s property.  

He may, in his general conduct, go to the very farthest extremity  

of the line where he touches the rights of others which are as  

sacred as his own rights; but he cannot proceed step further.  

This is the law; and it will always be the law while society shall  

hold together. And it is of high importance to observe that it is  

the same law that guarantees to the workman himself the rights  

which he holds most precious.”  

 

The United States courts have recently made decisions with  

reference to the rights and responsibilities of strikers and labour  

organisations generally, which appear to have surprised the  

American unionist almost as much as the decisions of the courts  

during the shearers’ and miners’ strikes surprised our Australian  

reformers. And yet the decisions referred to propose no new  

principles of law, and deviate in no particular from familiar  

requirements of justice.  

There has been good deal said and written lately on the  

subject of supplying rations at stations to travellers, and there is  

something to be said both for and against the system, so long as it  

is not abused. We do not propose to enter into the subject just  

now, but merely reproduce from our Wilcannia contemporary the  

following paragraph, to indicate the views of representative of  

the A.S.U. on the subject:—“ Mr. J. Atkinson, the local agent of  

the A.S.U. has called on us,” says the Western Grazier, “ in reference  

to paragraph from our Tibooburra correspondent which appeared  

in our last issue, to the effect that the stations in that district  

intended to put stop to free rations. Mr. Atkinson quite concurs  

with the proposed step, but at the same time thinks it would be  

good idea if the squatters interested would give publicity through  

the medium of the press of their intended action, to take effect  

from certain date. Their proposal would by this means become  

widely known, and certain class of men would at once realise the  

fact that it would be worse than useless to continue system  

which we regret seems to be in vogue in this part of the colony—  

viz., tramping about the country and loafing at the various  

stations.”  

An experienced manager of certain Eiverina stations has for  

some months past employed considerable number of rabbiters on  

the contract system, the prices being at so much per 100 skins.  

These latter were sent in dried or stretched on wire, and were  

then painted, under the supervision of the manager, with  

solution of arsenic as preventive against weevils. The skins  

were packed and pressed in bales of about 3j cwt. each, carted  

nearly 100 miles to the nearest railway station, conveyed about  

500 miles by rail to Sydney, and then sold there at 9d. per lb.—a  

figure which more than covers the cost of destruction.  

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