AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1926, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association

AUSTRALIAN FLEET’S WELCOME SYDNEY. Alarch 31.

Commodore Wardle referring to the Australian fleet’s visit to New Zealand said: “Tlie cruise was a tremendous success in every way. It seemed to me in New Zealand we were welcomed not only as British ships, but because v.e were Australians. This was the first time Australian ships bad visited New Zealand as a squadron and the occasion was marked by spontaneous expressions of friendship and empire loyalty on tho part of the Dominion. Although the chief purpose was to exercise with the New Zealand fleet, tlie visit in fact became a mission of fellowship and goodwill.”

ANCIENT BONES. BRISBANE, March 31

From about four hundred-weight of bones found on Durham Downs Station, tho Director of Queensland Aluscum lias built up the fir-t herbivorous dinosaur to be discovered in Australia. The remains represented a dinosaur forty feet in length.

BEEF CA'ITLI

WILL HAVE TO BE SMALLER

A SYDNEY, Alarch 31. Leoluringßii the Show on the development mm breeding in beef cattle, Doctor 1 'Mm Findlay, said it was predicted tile price of beef cattle would g.fe'p the peak within the next eight years and would then probably come down considerably owing to overproduction by the great beef growing countries of the world.

Dr Findlay said that the day of the big joint at the table had gone. Too much money to-day was spent in luxuries; therefore tlie housewife or flat Uweller ordered only the smallest joint without the fat necessary for one meal. This held good in America, Europe, Great Britain and also, to a growing extent, in Australia. No economist ever expected anything in lilt lire, but these small cuts of meat. The animals being produced in Australia were not ill many instances suitable for the markets of to-day. It would lie difficult, radically, to change the feed for cattle in this country, hut what breeders should aim at was a small neat plump animal that would coino to maturity at between two or three years of age.

AUSTRALIAN FLOODS. SHEER DROWNED. SYDNEY. March 31. While three thousand sheep were travelling by road near Coonamble they were caught by the flood waters from the* Castlereagli River and with the exception or two or throe hundred all were drowned. The remainder are still hogged. The sheep were an exceptionally good lot of one year old ewes. Other smaller losses of stock through the floods are reported from different parts of the district.