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Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 66, 23 June 1863, Page 3

Gipps Land Grumbling. — The relative value of the sheep and cattle stock in Victoria, we are well awaie, preponderates largely in favor of the former. This district is, however, an exception to the general rule, and while we have only some halt dozen flocks of sheep in the district, we have seme hundreds of thousands of cattle. Allowing for the difficulty of legislating for isolated localities, we must still believe that in a district like this, almost wholly dependent on cattle and gold, we eught to have some protection to both. A warden we have long and anxiously sought for our gold- fields, but a warden we are obliged to do without. A commissioner of pleuro-pneumonia we Avant, but it we get one appointed, we must pay him ourselves. Surely no one can say-it is fair or honest for Government to pay a sheep inspector oxer ,£4OO a-year, and to make us pay for a cattle inspector ourselves. To us the cattle interest is equal, if not paramount, to all other interests, and yet the country is saddled with the expense of a sheep or scab inspector, whilst pleuro-pneumonia may devastate our herds, and yet we can only get an inspector by paying him out of our own pockets. — Times.