From THE "Nort-Cutxa Dale News" or Fesrvary 23, 1869 a better investment than China Griffins: "At the Blayney pound 180 horses were sold at id. per head. Surely the minimum price was then reached, On some runs of the adjoining colony, wild horses have such a nuisance that devices for trapping them at their favourite watering places have been resorted to. When secured, the branded ones are returned to their owners or impounded; the unb: ones are shot and skinned, the skins selling at 4s. each, and the hair at 1s. 6d. per lb. in Sydney. One squatter is mentioned who has, with two of his neigh-hours, thus shot over 1500 horses within the last twelve mon!
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