£50,000 Worth of Animals.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 May 1910, Page 4

£50,000 Worth of Animals.

SHIPMENTS OF M FASTS TO IH'KXOS AYPFS. What was probably the largest shipment of domesticated ami wild animals made Iroin a single port >at one time was the two consignmicnts which left JTaiiibiirg recently on ithe steamers 'Hjuca and Santa Elena for Buenos Ay res. The first-named vessel was loaded with the tinest prize cattle bred by the members _of the Nonth-West Gennan Breeding Societies. ATr Carl Hage.niluv.'k otteiubnl to tlte transportation of these prize beasts, which included fifty bulls and eow.s, representing it lie very piclo of the Genua it stock, twenty prize stallions, two mares, thirty sheep of different varieties' and twenty milk goaLs. The animals, of are to be placed on show at the torthcoining exposition, ait Buenos Ay res. Air Carl Hagonbeck will also make a big display of wild beasts at the Argentine Exposition. The, Santa Elena carries Schilling's group of trained lions, seen at the .. Itite City last year, a fine troupe of trained tigers by Sawade, a group of twenty young Polar boars, n.s well as trained se:> lions, a troupe of performing zebras, an elephant. i\ horse, and two German boar-hounds. A host of radian acrobats, jugglers, and snake-charmers also sailed in the vessel. Forty Somalis. wiith all the paraphernalia of a complete native village, including anti'lopes. zebras, .and other animals, are also going out to the Argentine. Tin* value of these consignments if domesticated and wild beasts ifitlly (.'•")().f)00. It is expected tha 1 the trained beasts will earn I'lfi.OOO during the two months they will stay at the Exposition.