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AUSTRALIAN HORSES. 
brought before their notice.” Too true, indeed, is it, that 
many many years’ valuable time has been allowed to slip by, 
— by the Government. Long ere this there should have been 
flourishing satisfactory studs as in Bengal, furnishing a fine 
bony war horse at 150 to 200 rupees cheaper than the sum 
now paid ; but success could never be expected on the 
Zumeendaree, and other glaringly erroneous systems which 
have been carried on. 
It is very clear to those who can see sufficiently deep, and 
who understand horse matters, that supporting and depend- 
ing upon the Australian horse market will be a failure ; — it 
will answer the object of a certain few for the time, and the 
end of it will be, that there will be no studs, and no Arab 
dealers, and then the Government and the public will be at 
the considerate mercy of the Company, who will be found 
to be taken up with the sale and purchase of their wool, 
sugar, and tinware, instead of visiting and attending to the 
stock. 
I can easily understand the colonists not now being likely 
to take up the matter with that energy that they would have 
done at first. They are the very people to be guided by, for 
depend on it, they have well pro’d and con’d the “ scheme ” 
kept alive only by a very few. 
If the colonists saw that they were to get a return for their 
money, depend on it they would now take up the matter 
even with more energy than at first. They know of course, 
as well as I do, that Australians in the Calcutta market have 
sold at a loss for a very long time. Cook and Co., and the 
rest of the Calcutta public, lay out their money in country 
and government stud breds, they having proved themselves to 
be the animals for safety and constant work. And I would 
ask the Madras public what they will now give for the gene- 
rality of Madras Walers ? 
The extract of the Swan River letter is very like the pro- 
spectus for a forced railroad, for instance — “ the Company 
will be composed of a few affluent individuals, and it is not 
intended that the numbers should be materially increased, 
neither is it wished that any shares be taken up in this 
colony, although, if particularly requested, it would not be 
objected, that the colonists possess a small interest in the 
speculation !” Very plausible, indeed. The writer is a valu- 
able man for a “ Company,’’ and I should advise him at once 
to draw out a prospectus of a railroad from Swan River to 
Madras, as a “ sure fortune ” line, not forgetting to get an 
agent at Capel Court. 
