Volume 01: Production and resources of the northern and western districts of New South Wales, 1854 [ca. 1850-1857] - Page 478

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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES

was attended by similar results. So that if we cannot produce a rival to the famous Macassar, we can at all events furnish an oil which shall have the contrary effect of producing baldness.

IMPORTANCE OF THE SQUATTING INTERESTS OF THE COLONY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

On the 9th of October 1855 The Solicitor General in the Legislative Council bore testimony to the importance of the Squatting interest of the Colony, and contrasting it with the gold produce, which at one time promised to become the largest source of Colonial wealth, he said that while the gold now yielded less than half a million annually of exports, there from this colony.

OUR BEEF & MUTTON PROSPECTS

FROM THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD MARCH 8th 1854

The letter from Mr Gideon S Lang published in the Herald of Thursday last, on the subject of our supplies of animal food, merits very serious attention. If his views are correct our prospects with regard to butchers meat are any thing but favourable, the supply being in the inverse ratio of demand.

We attach the more weight to Mr Langs representations, because they are in substance borne out by the testimony of other country gentlemen will qualified to form an opinion on such subjects & because moreover, they are, to a certain extent, confirmed by the official returns of live stock for the year 1852. The returns for 1853 are not yet prepared indeed from several parts of the interior they have not been received at the Colonial Secretaries office.

It appears about the middle of last year Mr Lang went to Melbourne, for the purpose of learning

the State of the Market in that Colony; and he found that in the previous year the Stockholders had ceased breeding sheep for fear of having no labour, that very few had subsequently renewed it, on account of scab, and that in those instances, the increase was very little, owing to the scarcity of labour & the size of the flocks "And Consequently" he adds "instead of the usual crop of ripe sheep they were consuming their standing stock of all ages & both sexes: & that at such a rate that in three years the whole sheep of Victoria will disappear. I got numbers of

settlers to State Seria [?] the decrease on each station of their several districts, & in one case it was 300,000; in all. Considerably above 200,000." In proof these statements were not exaggerated, he says it is a fact that there is in the Victoria Clip of at least 8000 to 12,000 bales & that the Victoria Cattle dealers now monopolise the Southern districts, the Murray, Murrumbidgee & Lachlan from which Sydney has hitherto got her principal supply of Cattle.

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