LIVE STOCK FOR FIO-DEJANEIRO.

Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7159, 21 September 1888, Page 6

LIVE STOCK FOR FIO-DE-JANEIRO.

By the R.M.S.S. Tainui, which left Lyttelton yesterday, there were shipped sixty-five pure-bred merino rams, which have been purchased at the Melbourne show by their owner, Mr Percy McNeave, who goes with them to Buenos Ayres. The rams are a beautiful stamp of sheep, and should the owner be fortunate with them he may expect to get a good return for his enterprise. For the voyage they have been cooped in five large pens which are secured on the main deck forward. There is also a plentiful supply of fodder for their use. Mr McNeave made one venture before which was so successful that he has travelled this way again. But what seems to have been the most extraordinary thing is that he should have passed New Zealand over in his search for stock. The animals arrived per the s.s. Te Anau yesterday morning from Melbourne, and did not appear to have in any wav suffered from the effects of their passage. They were purchased from the following Victorian flockmasters:—Messrs Bailey and Wynne, Terinallum; Mr Robert Jamieson, Stony Point; Mr H. H. Wellenhalls, Carr's Plains; Messrs Cummingand Co., Mount Fvans; Mr P. W. Archer, Panshanger ; and Mr W. C. Grubb. They are all the progeny of prize-winning rams in Victoria. We understand that he will again send to these colonies for more stud stock when this lot is safely landed.