Whiting on September 21, a London correspondent says that a good deal of interest ia being taken live cattle in the experimental ship- F©R the menb of live cattle from home market New South Wales by the Maori King. It will be j remembered that twenty head were shipped, and nineteen of them arrived alive and well, the twentieth havißg died from the effects of injuries received dur ing a severe storm off the coast of New Zealand. The Times devoted a long article to the subject. The writer sad that "so f?.r as the mere question of carriage is concerned the present ship ment must be pronounced an unqualified success." Tha one paramount question is, can shipments of live stock from the colony to .England be made remunerative? On this point there seems to he some difference of opinion among experts, but the preponderance is that such shipments could be made to pay if carried 01 under suitable conditions. As to tha store cattle the expert opinion is decidedly against sending Home this class*of stock. Apparently there was an i^ea that the cattle on arrival could be pastured anH fattened for tho market, but che Board of Agriculture refused to permit thia, and lequired all the cattle to be slaughter-id within ten days at the first port of land ing. This action was bis^d upon an Order-in-Council, which inaintained the restrictions upon importation of Canadian and other foreign cattle. In is specially noteworthy that this ()rder-in-Oouncil is dated August 13. a few days after the news was received in London that the shipment of live cattle lml been des patched from Sydney. There is very little doubt, if any, that the Order in- Oouncil was expressly designed to apply tj the coming Australian bhipment, and chat it was designed as a Protective measure in the interest of the British agriculturist. It was not so much to suard agiinst the introduction of disease as to defeat competition. That store cattle could be profitably shipped from the colonies to Kngland and fattened at Home for the market appears indubitable, if only the Board ot Agriculture did not stand in the way. But so lorg as the exiatingOrder-in-Oouncil or any analogous order remains in forca such a course is rendered commercially impracticable.
