PASTORAL STATISTICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2145, 30 July 1907, Page 1

PASTORAL STATISTICS.

The following figures showing the amount of wool and frozen meat exported from Gisborne and the number of live sheep in the district are tahen from a statement prepared by Messrs. Common, Shelton, and Co.: WOOL, . Year. Bales. lbs. 1890 8,872 1891 8,933 3,070,993 1802 10,731 3,744,525 1893 12,201 4,054,846 1891 ' 13,252 4,759,810 sol::: 14,439 4,945,001 890 ... 15,115 5,413,928 189' ... 17,527 0,279,280 8 98 21,405 ■ 7,8.30,008 1899 23,321 8,504,048 1099 """ .... 21,720 5,123,323 901 .. 23,114 8,820.003 <0224.28.5 9,384,057 ] 90-1 27,324 10,348,790 1991 ~ 28,055 11,019.247 1901 28,803 11,218.220 90( 32.202 12.794,008 1907 35.930 11,285,220

FROZEN MEAT. Mutton. Lamb. Reel. Year. lbs. Ilia. Ihs. 189') ... 2,208,509 50,164 1891 ... 3.087,093 99,230 300,040 1892 ... 2,911,779 08,82/ 441,400 1893 ... 1.052,134- 31,503 1894 ... 2,503,440 1895 ; ... 3,318,151 12,480 00,205 1890 . 4,774,257 14,102 220,08/ 1897 ... 4,870,354 23,717 132,855 1898 ... 9.379,097 52,023 <5u,500 1899 9,824,220 179,405 1,560,101 1900 8.221,280 278,978 1,795,992 1901 11 977,453 392,83/5 2,640.238 1902 ... '10,008,840 050,464 2,840,557 1903 ... 17,188,826 1.301,523 3,399,182 190* 10 882.700 1,413.194 3,430,2/6 1 958,910 3,093,483 1900 12 747 040 2 328,888 2,447,00$ 1907 14 697,713 2,529,199 4,187,185

LIVE SHEEP. 1890 506,803 1891 542.890 1892 :::: 715,039 1893 800,084 1894 870,283 1890 902, 028 1897 991.082 1898 1.09, .2,2 1899 M-22.000 1900 f-E 2,241 1901 1,213,146 1902 1,313,063 1903 1.281,424 1904 1,330,480 1905 i. 1,430,514 1906 1.578,482 1907 1,709,361

Senator Lodge, writing in Scribner, makes a good point against English critics who think American vernacular, with its “I calculate” and “I guess,” is vulgar. These critics, he remarks, need not have gone so far afield. Turn, for instance, to the “New Letters” of Thomas Carlyle, volume 1, p. 78, and there you read:—“He has bought you a Foxe’s ‘Book of Martyrs,’ which I calculate will go in the parcel to-day; you will get light good reading out of it, I guess.” That settles “calculate” as being good English. But the joke is t 'at “it is rarely heard anywhere in flic United States.” With “I guess” the ease is different. It is a very common phrase. It is not “American” however. It is English —Chaucer used it, Gray and Coleridge used it, and even scrupulously English Wordsworth. Senator Lodge, tli ere fore, claims that Americans are “vulgar” in very good company. On the other hand, he points out that Americans set Englishmen good examples, which they never fellow. For instnace, and American, never says one thing is “different to” another—-he says, grammatically, that it is “different form.” Americans also, it is claimed, ■ are more careful of tho meaning of words than Englishmen, which means that they are more careful in tlieir choice of words. Among then* educated .writers this may be true, but in their newspaper . English and in conversation they are more apt than Englishmen to coin words and phrases which, if expressive are often slangy. Still, Senator Lodge shows that Americans ar> not such original sinners in this respect as they are commonly supposed to bo.