THE PERTHSHIRE'S CATTLE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5258, 14 May 1895, Page 2

THE PERTHSHIRE'S CATTLE.

Referring to the shipment of live cattle on the steamship Perthshire, the Sydney Stock and Station Journal says :— " I( cattle are to be a success on the long trip from here to England they must be carefully handled during shipment. The Townßvillo people probably know this as well as we do, and they were going to dredge a place for the Perthshire alongside the wharf, but the Perthshire wovildu'tfjo, and very rightly too. Butevenlf she had gone the mob of cattle she took on board would still have been a disgrace to Queensland. Aa it is, the wretched animate, with broken horns and drooping headß, were a biting satire on the civilisation of Townsville, and if they all lived to rea?H the Old Country they would do our o Iceland neighbours no credit. But 2t Ut -net of them will feed the hungry tne Wv. . Vfl restless eea loDg before the Perthshire" see * tbe wbite cUff ' of Albion : those concerned in the B : s *0B»» B fc

A FANATIC AND HIS D^PES. Another letter baß boon receiveu ttottk one of the unfortunate Wellington residents who went away to South Africa' under the influence of Eugene some months ago. It states that the party went eight hundred miles up-countiy by train and ihen journeyed further inland on seven waggone, some of the younger mon riding on horseback and driving oattle. After three or four weeks' travelling the waggoners refueed to go any further, and dumped the unlucky people down on the banks of the Maehona River, come two hundred miles from the nearest settlement. They had to depend for food almost entirely upon tbo game they could shoot. About the end of November Eugene told his followers that the catastrophe they had left New Zealand to avoid had happened, viz., that this colony had disappeared ; but there were sceptics in the party, and two men rode to the nearest station in the hopeß of obtaining news. After their return a dispute arose with Eugene as to the ownership of a horse. Eugene left the camp with it for a time, but on being met again was given into the custody of the Bechuanaland police and charged with having stolen it. The case against him fell through, bnt the other claimant gained possession .of the horse and has kept it. Ultimately the party broke up, Eugene with his wife and two others, B. Chamberlain and C. 8. Thomas, being left on the banks of the Mashona Biver. The rest have returned to Capetown.