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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1510, 7 February 1901, Page 47

The Canterbury Acclimatisation Society is considering the practicability of importing a few chamois next year. In a letter received from Herr Karl Hagenbeck, it wa 3 stated that these animals are becoming very rare, and a pair would cost from £SO to £6O. The European ibex is practically extinct, but the Siberian ibex could be supplied at from £oo to £6O each for males, and from £75 to £IOO for females. Herr Hagenbeck suggested the Argalai sheep as an annual suited- to the climate of New Zealand. This sheep, which, would cost from £l5O to £l7o' per pair, weighs, when full grown, 4001 b, the head alone weighing from 40 to 501 b. ' The rapid increase which- is taking place in the export of dairy produce from the colony shows to what an extent the great industry- of the small farmer is extending in New Zealand. By .the Papanui, one of the direct boats making the fortnightly service—unfortunately still giving an irregular arrival at the market^ —between this colony %ndf London, no fewer than 675 tons of butter and about 600 tons of cheese were shipped Home oil Thursday. The Delphic, which left Lyttelton on the 22nd inst., also took a large shipment of dairy produce, the butter portion, in fact, constituting 8 record. This vessel carried Home 950 tons of butter (representing a value of nearly £65,000), and 60 tons of cheese. The Canterbury Acclimatisation Society recently had under discussion a warrant issued to Sir John Hall to kilL seagulls on his property at Hororata. It was decided to point out to the Colonial Secretary the destruction of trout- - wrought by v seagulls, and also the danger to live stock from the same birds, and! to request him to remove, in the Can*terbury district, the embargo on their destruction when found two miles inland from the seashore.