The Daily Southern Cross.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3017, 28 March 1867, Page 4

The Daily Southern Cross.

LTTOEO, NON TTRO. " If I h*v* be»n •xtiagnishtd, y«t tL«r« rla« ▲ thouiuid ,be»coni.frqm th« iptrk I bore."

THURSDAY, MAHCH 28.

The evidence which we publish to-day, from the Wellington Advertiser of the 22nd, taken on the preliminary examination of E. J. Cox, in the Resident Magistrate's Court at Wellington, suggests the course of action which ought at once to be ta^en in Auckland. Beyond all question, the absconder has been' guilty of felony, and it is the duty of some one of his victims to swear informations, and, send a warrant down to Wellington for his apprehension. Why this step has not been already taken we cannot imagine. Still less can we understand the indisposition manifested by the members of the legal profession and others yesterday, who ought to take the lead in bringing the offender; to justice. Does it really come to this, that the community of Auckland prefer 2s. in the pound of an insolvent estate to losing this amount and upholding justice ? It almost seems as if it were so. At the same time, we have the satisfaction of knowing that this feeling is not general, and that although the escape of the self-confessed legal swindler may be winked at by many who ought to act differently, a warrant for his apprehension will be obtained and sent down by the mail to-day, should it be in time to ensure his detention. It really is a sad state of things when a public journal is compelled to write, as we must on this subject. What confidence can the community have in a profession, whose members do not feel bound, for their individual and professional reputation, to pursue^ and prosecute an unworthy member like Cox ? If the lawyers are, as a body, unwilling to take an active part in biinging Cox to justice, their oonduct must give rise to a considerable amount of speculation. Why is this so 1 - Why have no steps been taken until now to secure his arrest, and a searching inquiry into the whole of the transactions in which he has been engaged? We have no doubt an investigation in open Court into the particulars of the Cox frauds, carefully conducted to elicit the whole truth, would reveal such a state of things — such looseness on the part of the agent, and blind confidence on the part of the client — as would go far towards remodelling the business relations between attorney and client in Auckland. We say it with some degree of pain, but nevertheless with perfect truthfulness, that hitherto the legal business in this city has been conducted with a looseness, and a want of system, that is neither satisfactory to the agent nor the principal. In, this respect there ought to be a thorough reform. More than this, when any member of the legal profession commits any aot which, in the opinion of any of his brother professionals, ought to be visited with punishment and exposure, they will show their sense of their own position, and entitle themselves to the respect and confidence of the community at large, by bringing the offender, whoever he may be, to justice. Until the legal pro- 1 fe&sion in Auckland takes up this stand, aad shows that George and Cox are exceptions, > the public must be excused if they cease to repose the same confidence in their legal advisers as of old. Too much credit oannot be given to Inspector Atchison for his prompt action in arresting Cox in Wellington, »

A WORD TO ENTERPRISING SETTIiERS.

We find the following article on the merits of the Brittany* cow,— the imallest'of dairy cattle,— -in a recenti number of the .Australasian. Would it not He worth importing some of these, and also of the Kerry stock, to depasture oof.then f .the bare hieh land's whioh abound in this province, more especially with a view to assisting , the ■mall settler in the beginnings of his enterprise? The .comparatively small quantity of food required to keep them in good oondition, and. th© large return they yield in milk and butter, are in themselves a recommendation ; and although it will be- more profitable on good pasturei to keep the larger breeds of cattle for dairy purposes, as the Ayrshire, still the Brittany and Kerry- breeds' would be * great, boon to tfte province. We quote ?—

, THK OF PAUIT COWS. This, -ire need scarcely, tell our reader* is the little black and -white oow: of Brittany, and if all we are told about' h«r be true, she ii essentially the cow f or a poer man. She ii ■aid to live upon sixpence a week, and give milk worth that much every day under the most unfavourable circumstances, and to have an immunity from disease. The Bretons are the only cattle that have escaped the rinderpest, unless it may be their congeners in Kerry, and they scarcely know what lung disease is. Hardy and patient, under the roughest usage, yet they give an ample return for better food and treatment. ■ Being of such small size they can* not eat much, but when allowed good food they give a large yield of rich milk in proportion to what they do eat, and the dry 'fatten quickly, and put on beef fine in the grain and rioh in flavour. Their milk is not quite so rioh in cream as that of the Channel Island cattle, but they yield more in propor* tion to their size, and are allowed-.to be altogether more profitable. ■ The merits of the breed were- not exaggerated when the cows were first 1 introduced into England, not many years ago, the best -proof 'of "(Ma being that there has beeti a continuous demand 1 for them ever since; Here they have only been tried by a few, the price being so high, but. those 1 who get a good one will not part with her/ K\ 4i ' '- ' ' ' As a breed, probably the Breton oattle have had'a separate existence as long as any othfer kn6wn amongst civilised people.. In size and 'appearance' they are quite distinct r froih every Mother, 1 the cattle, reared on _ the mountains of Kerry coming nearest to them,- and these two races have, without a doubt, one common origin. No one familiar with both' can 'fail to 'be struck with the likeness .and the peculiarities^ sharfed in by them only 1 , although the animals of one Dreed axe nearly twice as heavy as' those of the '.other. Jljl The colour is the same? black and whftej witih the tips of the horns and thWh'o'ofs black. 1 ' Irtbotti breeds, th'ere is occasionally a red and -while one, and we are;told that in Brittany^these are the moitnighly prized I—we1 — we may presume from their rarity, for in- both countries black is recognised, a* the orthodox colour. lj The same fine bone and. general appearance of high.breeding exist in either, with a squareness of -frame 1 in the cow which indicates, good milking! dualities. i-A giJod Kerry has always been allowed in oreland to bb ( the most profitable of cows where there ;was any scarcity of feed, and now' the Breton cow, 'still smaller, 'his taken a&ay from he,rttie pre-emmence'in that,way. History dees not tell us when the two fainihes-'of •Bretons- and of Irishmen in the kingdom of Kerry branched off from one common Celtic stook, but that they did so is certain, , and' equally oertainia ii -that they took the cattle- with them from which -the two breeds of black and white cattle are derive^/ ' « ';[ The Brittany cattle, having small bone and -soUnd constitutions, must give a good return for "the- 'food they eat, and- we find 1 M. Mgheiist, anfeiathusiasiio French farmer; 1 who keeps rio other cows; rfving^fhe yield of his dairy as a proof that they are The most profitable cbws to be kept in France. From; Bis statement the average'yield otboth milk and butter from the little animals is good, and the. full-grown cows only go dryfor a few days in' the 1 - year, having a calf every ten or eleven months. The beat cows, from four to seven years old, 'and only cleven r Jiauas high, give from a gallon and a half to three gallons a day, -for' three' or four month's- after, calving," the/ qtian. tity being reduced gradually- to about five pints '*dky just before they go dry. " These oows ) weigh" *bbut 6cwt., and when kept on coarse bay'' alone 1 ett^Jfb. a day each. Now that' they have Wconie ;tfie f«pn to a certain extent. 1 they are'being improved ithatya to say,lncretaed in siae by good'feedin^^but' &*s& be long before thby equal even the Kerry in iiM respect, and still longer before they, are recognised aa profitable 1 Hairy, cows in 'England for thos6 who have to live or partly live by the sale of eithe^MH^Jor butter. Yet they have established their oKarictfcr there as the best cows that oan hi kept where' they have to eke out a living as they oan, with 1 the aid of an occasional armful of grass 'f>om the b^dge^o* bundle of cabbage-leaves out of the garden. ' /