AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 260, 1 November 1872, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Auckland, October 31. Ike following items of Au»traUan news bare been brought by the Alexandra:-— „ ' ."•.■ . .■;. melbottne; ' l: ° ; '- ; ' : - October 25.— The entries for the spring meeting . are published Betting on the cup: 2to 1 against Dagworfch, 6 to 1 against Contessa, 10 to 1 against JBongof^theEiDg. "\"'.". ""..'■'■."• ..>•'••-, • Sailed: Great Britain for Liverpool. IFldnr, JEI6 IDs.; .-wheat,, 7s. 6d ; maize, 3s. 2d. '.. ■■:'■'."..: '.'•■•.; M '; '--:SYDKBr;..- : '-^- ■••■'■: ' /-I October 2S."i-The Decapolis ' has arrired witha cargo of rice and 50 tons of salt. . Arrived: '''Hero^^•frbmAucklandi' " , '■■'■' >;••■- - ; ';.';fi: ; :"'A^ELAlDk :v " ;u; •'■ ''•'■''] Wheat haa been sold at ss. 10d.; flour unchanged. liarge sales of theTcbuntry article at £iB. , „ , : ■/.■, :■■. ;; !? '; T n "^iSEwqXSTLR. :'/.•; •' ; ;:;;'.," ; " Saile^^iiHver for Nelson, Celestial Queen for

Colonial "Industry.— Messrs. Fraser and Tinne, of Auckland, have' just tamed oat an engine of 110 horse-power. It is stated by the Herald to he the largest yet made in the colony. -The engine and boilers, all made by Messrs. Fraser and Tinne) are intended to drive the powerful saw-mill machinery row being erected for the Shortland Saw-mill Company. The same firm has just turned out a pair of compound engines, fitted with surface condenser, for the s.s. Rowena. A Modbl Newspaper. — The Poverty Bay Standard, a newspaper which has just seen the light, introduces itself to its readers in the following magniloquent, strain:— "Our platform is a broad one. The JEgis of our authority will be thrown around those who are acting up to the truth. Argus. will watch with a wary eye; and Nemesis will as surely be on the trail of the wnong-doer as night follows day. Fiat Justitia ! Our motto will be ' measures first and men after.' We disclaim all party feeling and distinction as , such, being firm in the belief that ' good can come but of Nazareth.' The narrowminded prejudices which arise from the error of reducing the iocus through which we scan the conduct of others to a bird's-eye view, will receive scant mercy at our hands. Personal invective, that ancillary companion of social scandal; the small-talk of other folks* private affairs; the stab in the dark; the broad -cast distribution of 'intellectual slush ' (as a writer expressively terms it) be must eliminated from our columns to command respect and to achieve our object." Me. George Graham, late of Auckland, who is now in London, writes out to his friends :— *' I saw in the Standard a report that five schooners were to be built in Australia for the British Government, . for the suppression of the slave trade in the Southern Seas. I wrote to the Secretary of State for the colonies, requesting him, if it was the case, to allow the Auckland ship builders to tender for the same. I stated that Auckland-built vessels were well known to every naval officer that has served in the Southern Seas, that kauri spars, deck planks, &c, were acknowledged to be equal to any pine, for ship-building, and that kauri timber only gre w in thePrrvinceof Auckland. Now I did this hoping to serve some of our ship-builders. Let them know this so as to be prepared." Mr. Graham received this reply from the Secretary of State : — " Sir — I am directed by the Earl of E imberley to acknowledge your letter of the sth inst., and to inform you that a copy of it will be forwarded to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty for their consideration. — I am, &c, Egbert Geo. Her ert." Cattle Shows. — We recommend the following rema'ks from the Timant . Herald to the notice of our country 'readers:- — "These annual exhibitions are of more value to the country than what a mere superficial observer would imagine. •They not. only afford opportunity for the regular breeder to compare and to classify, with the object of reaching, if possible, an excellence of type he has, perhaps, long been striving for, but a pastoral exhibition is for a man who desires instruction, though he may be but the veriest tyro in the 'business, a golden opportunity to obtain that knowledge he would iv vain eeek for elsewhere. Farmers and stock breeders are like other mortals, apt to consider that they are individually in possession of the finest cow, the best sheep, or the most perfect horse in the district, and it is only when the crucial test of comparison as afforded in a show-yard is given that possibly the man discovers how lamentably he has deceived himself, and he finds, that that excellence which he prided himself in possessing is really of a very mediocre kind. The man who farms and breeds stock as a business soon discovers that inferior bred animals are fully as expensive to keep as those which are well bred,, but when he comes to tot up and compare the returns ot the two classes of stock, he finds that where the one gives a minimum of profit— likely enough not paying- for its grass — the other, gives a very handsome return into the pocket of the breeder. If the large runholder, with his ample margin of conntry, is under the necessity of looking after quality rather than quantity, how much more should the j freehold grazier and small farmer consider this question! These latter having but a . limited" area of land to work upon,' the possession of good or bad stock mentis literally making money or losing it. The welUbred animal, whether in wool or car-: case, pays its owner handfcomely, whereas •the inferior^bred brute is, as twe; before; The show-yard is the best possible school, •-'-" v'^h^;f(Sr|th^';^an^'; long:" .in- the trade' and ; I "3th'£ ;'b^i^^^hJßf;,';leßß^oß' j-.ther.e^iearnt ; !itcommiuni^ eapport must be derived from the; pubhe."