1(38 THE ANGORA GOAT. 
finement, the long sea voyage, and the hardships to 
which they had been subjected on shipboard. 
The half of the cost of this experiment was borne 
by Mr. McCullough of Maryborough, to whom the 
whole of the goats of this breed were afterwards sent. 
In the Annual Report of the Acclimatisation Society, 
for the year 1866, it was stated that the attempt to 
acclimatize the Cashmere goat had proved a failure, 
from which I conclude that this flock had not proved 
successful at Maryborough. 
The exquisitely fine Cashmere shawls imported from 
India, in which ladies so much delight, are manufac- 
tured from the wool of the Cashmere goat. A first-class 
pair of Cashmere shawls will cost £300 to produce. 
Baron Hugel gives the items of cost as follows 
-Labour of 24 artisans for 12 months, ^180 ; materials 
and dyeing, ^30 ; duty, £70 ; and charges of the 
establishment, ^20 ; total £300." 
British and French manufacturers are now competing 
successfully against cheap Asiatic labour, by the exten- 
sive use of labour-saving machinery, and shawls little 
inferior to the real ones from Cashmere are sold at a 
much less cost. The scarcity of the material is a great 
difficulty, but much of the finest description of 
Australian Merino lambs' wool is believed to be used 
instead of or mixed with the real Cashmere shawl wool. 
An attempt was made by a French gentleman, 
M. Ternaux, who, assisted by the intrepid traveller 
Jaubert, selected and purchased a flock of the pure 
Cashmere goats, and introduced them into France, with 
the object of doing away with the necessity of im- 
porting the raw material. M. Ternaux not being able 
to give that attention to the flock which they required, 
