besides a flock of wethers two hundred and fifty strong. Mr. 

 Leefe expected an increase during the month of June last 

 year of fifteen hundred kids, a proportion of which will be 

 third-cross. In the month of May, Mr. Leefe sheared one 

 hundred and sixty yearlings second-cross does and wethers, in 

 addition to four bucks. The former gave about one pound, 

 the latter five pounds, of hair each. From the length and 

 fineness of the clip taken from those sheared, it may be con- 

 fidently anticipated that the third-cross will very near]}-, 

 and the fourth-cross will fully, equal pure hair. The report 

 upon that already sent to market (London, I believe, but I am 

 not quite certain) was, 'Well grown, fine, silky, and almost 

 equal to the best Turkish.' It fetched as much as three 

 shillings per pound. The animals browse during the day, but 

 are yarded every night, and the does give an unusual quantity 

 of milk, while the angora-crossed wethers supply a meat much 

 more tender than mutton, partaking in fact more of the 

 character of venison. When it is considered that these most 

 profitable animals will live and thrive where sheep would 

 starve, the inducement to make their breeding a matter of 

 regular and general enterprise seems to be exceptionally great 

 in the Fiji Group. 



As a further exemplification of what Fiji can accomplish, I 

 will just mention the articles that Messrs. Ryder Brothers, of 

 Mango, and the Rambi Plantation Company, exhibited at the 

 Sydney World's Fair. Messrs. Ryder Brothers sent Sea 

 Island cotton, Sea Island cotton in seed, cotton seed, Mocha 

 coffee, plantation coffee, copra prepared in two different ways, 

 tapioca, maize (or Indian corn), dried bananas, and lime-juice. 

 Captain Hill's company showed four different samples of the 

 cocoa-fibre industry coir bristle, fine coir fibre, finest straw- 

 coloured coir, and curled straw-coloured coir. One dhoU of 



