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

Call Number
NL 338.1 PAS
Created/Published
Melbourne : Twopenny, Pearce and Co., 1891-1901
Issue
Vol. 4 No. 5 (16 July 1894)
Images
52
Notes
Index appears at the beginning of the March issue
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Contents

THE AUSTRALASIAN PASTORALISTS' REVIEW. 1
NOTICE. 1
Editorial Notes. 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
News Jottings. 4
Review of Pastoral Situation. 5 , 6
Victoria. 6 , 7
Queensland. 7 , 8
South Australia. 8 , 9
Tasmania. 9 , 10
New Zealand. 10 , 11
Argentina. 11 , 12 , 13
Pastures and Stock Boards (N.S.W.). 13
Advertising 13
The Wool Trade. 14 , 15
Our London Letter. 15 , 16
The Frozen Our London Letter. 17 , 18 , 19 , 20
Chilling v. Freezing. 20 , 21
Items. 21 , 22
Live Stock Export from Argentina. 22
Graziers’ Meat Export Company (N.S.W.) 22 , 25
Advertising 23 , 24
Shipping Long Distances. 25
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 26
New South Wales Land Administration. 26
Grass Seeds. 26
Sale Yards and Boiling1 Down. 26
Advertising 27 , 28 , 29
Australasian Pastoralists Review. The Shearing Agreement. 29 , 30
The Shearing Difficulty. 30 , 31 , 32 , 33
Sydney Annual Sheep Fair. 33 , 34 , 35
Some Notes on the Sydney Ram Fair, from a New Zealander’s Point of View. 35 , 36
Pastoralists’ Conversazione in Sydney. 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41
The Blending of Cattle. 41 , 42
Boring Notes. 42
Progress of Government Artesian Bores in N.S.W. 42
Labour Notes. 42
Stock and Station Notes. 43 , 44
Rainfall Tables—June, 1894. 44
Light Literature. The Reclamation of the Native. 45
Our Book-Shelf in the Bush. 46
Advertising 46
Record. The Pastoralists’ Union of New South Wales. 47 , 48 , 49 , 50
New South Wales Pastoralists’ Union. 51
The Pastoralists’ Association of Victoria and Southern Riverina. 51
Queensland United Pastoralists’ Association. 51
Cross-Breeding in Southern New Zealand. 51
Publishers’ Department. 52
Advertising 52

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THE  

AUSTRALASIAN PASTORALISTS' REVIEW.  

MONTHLY JOTJENAL AND EBCOED  

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

No. 5.  

SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, JULY 16, 1894.  

VOL. IV.  

NOTICE.  

The “ Australasian Pastoralists’ Review" has been established at  

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

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

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

motion of the pastoral industry.  

SUBSCRIPTIONS.  

The terms of subscription are One Pound Sterling per annum,  

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

either at 63 Pitt-street, Sydney, or 475 Gollins-street, Melbourne.  

LONDON AGENCY.  

Mr. J. T. Critchell, 31 Fleet-street, has been appointed special  

representative of this Revieic for Great Britain, and is authorised to  

receive subscriptions and advertisements.  

TO CORRESPONDENTS.  

A.W.B. (Thornby).—Your letter should properly be addressed to  

the United Pastoralists’ Association of Queensland.  

Editorial Notes.  

The pressure on our space this month is extraordinary. In  

addition to the Sydney Sheep Fair with its usual concomitants of  

pastoralists’ conversazione, and the N.S.W. Pastoralists’ Union  

meeting, we have shearing difficulty upon us. Under these  

circumstances we have omitted our usual leading and special  

articles to give space to reports which appear to us more urgent.  

♦  

♦  

The rise in the wool market—small though it be -is the principal  

pastoral topic of the month. For if the most sanguine hopes about  

frozen meat are realised, wool, and mainly merino wool, must  

remain the staple of Australian prosperity. Unless the bimetal-  

lists are even more in the right than we suspect, the present rise  

should indicate the turn of the tide, even though the flow cannot  

be expected to be swift or far-borne. Every indication is favour-  

able, especially that from America, excepting always the growth  

of discontent amongst the working population, with its resultant  

want of confidence of capital. This is disease which no one can  

hope to cure speedily, and so long as it persists bad times are  

bound to continue, even though they may show fluctuations within  

narrow margin, Events like President Carnot’s assassination  

may produce strong repressive measures, and are the necessary  

outcome of all the socialism which is simmering in our midst, but  

discontented people who deceive themselves into thinking that  

they are working for the good of humanity will never realise this.  

 

If society had only to deal with the downright vicious element  

in the forces of discontent we should regard the future com-  

placently. But it is the people with weak heads and warm hearts  

who are really the worst mischief-makers. It is so easy to show  

that this world is not paradise, and to point to suffering  

incidental to the existing social arrangements. And it is so  

difficult to devise reforms which sensibly palliate that suffering  

that it is no wonder people in the old world rush into schemes of  

social regeneration. But the same excuse is not present in this  

new world. If the fear of anti-capitalist measures were done  

away with altogether there would in very few months be no need  

for any man in Australia to seek work in vain wages would  

inevitably rise, and prosperity would return with rapid strides.  

Why cannot our reformers allow the old world to make social  

experiments and let Australasia jog along the old easy road It  

was with too much truth that the first Napoleon declared that the  

desire for perfection was the worst of the evils that afflict the  

human race.  

«  

Perhaps the idealists would give us peace in Australasia if it  

were not for the agitators who fatten on the stirring up of strife.  

If ever there was clear case of this it is in the efforts made by  

the unionist leaders to foment another general strike over the  

changes in the shearing agreement and reduction in wages. The  

subject is one upon which our readers will not care to hear any-  

thing from us, and with outsiders the expressions of opinion from  

general newspapers, which we publish in another column,  

will have more influence than anything we could say. In the  

present situation, indeed, there is nothing to be gained by words,  

and the less argument the smoother the course. The Pastoralists’  

Federal Council has devised fair workable agreement, and,  

generally speaking, its action maintains higher average rate of  

wages than would otherwise be paid. All that members have to  

do is to be cool and firm, and the difficulties so much mouthed by  

the delegates will gradually disappear.  

The fourth annual meeting of the Pastoralists’ Union of New  

South Wales revealed no flaw in the unanimity of the members in  

face of the difficulties threatened by the Union leaders. Consider-  

ing that there must always be divergence of individual opinion as  

to what is “fair” rate of wages, and that general rates cannot  

take exceptional circumstances into account, it is most gratifying  

to find the decision of the Federal Council thus approved by the largest  

meeting of members that has yet been held. Mr. Dangar’s presiden-  

tial address struck the right notes of kindly interest in the welfare  

of employees combined with firmness in asserting the necessities of  

the position of employers and his words were the more approved,  

because the Dangar family for the greater part of century have  

always acted upon these principles in the management of their  

estates. The popularity of the president and his zeal on behalf of  

the Union received hearty acknowledgment during the evening,  

whilst all agreed with the speaker who said “ he felt sure they  

could not have better secretary than Mr. Whiteley King,” whose  

report speaks for itself.  

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