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THE TICK PEST.
BRISBANE, Friday, June 3.
Mr. Chataway, tho Minister of Agriculture,
has received a telegram from the stockowneis
of theBelyando District, thanking him for his
decisive step in obtaining tho release of their
cattle, and in promising to give them every
assistance, as tneir cattle being clean entitled
them to free access to the whole of the colo
nies. If the Border were wholly closed tho
surplus stock could bo dealt with at moat
works. Mr. Chataway has forwarded a reply
to tho ultimatum of New South Wales and
Victorian Ministers on the tick question, but
refuseB to stato its tenor.
SYDNEY, Monday, Juno 0.
A disquieting reply has been received by
tho Government from Mr. Chataway, the
Minister of Agriculture in Queensland, re
specting the ultimatum forwarded to him by
Messrs. Taverner and Sydney. Smith
on behalf of Victoria and New South
Wales on Thursday last objecting
to . his counter - ' proposals respecting
the''revision of the tick quarantine in his
colony. Rlr. Chataway controverts various
assumptions of the two southern Ministers
regarding tho spread of tick, and in con
clusion says the energetic action and striot
quarantine established at Rockhampton had
delayed the march of the tick there for
two years, and if the Government had
as much success in the future as in tho past
Victoria and New South Wales had tho surest
guarantee that their flocks would be protected
from an early invasion of theplague. The
proposals made by Messrs. Taverner and
Smith meant the denuding of cattle from a
large area, including tho Darling Downs and the
Logan country, and his Government could not
agree to abandon that area to which New
South Wales was turning off 40,000 head of
fat cattle annually. If a buffer State was
necessary for the protection of Viotoria and
New South Wales it should at once be estab
lished within the boundaries of New South
Wales, and thus relievo Queensland from the
enormous and increasing expenditure which
it was incurring in coping with, equally for
the benefit of tho other colonies as for Queens
land, a pest which did not originate in
Queensland.
SYDNEY, Tuesday, June 7.
The Kiana Pastures and Stock Protection
Board had under consideration to-day a com
munication from the Chief Inspector of Stock
with regard to the contribution of a halfpenny
per head on cattle in the northern rivor dis
tricts to raise funds for tho erection of fences
on ihe^asnable portionsof theborder from,
White. SwsniptoTweed Meads inprevent
the ingr088:.of cattle: from Queensland into
NemSouth WiileB. The meeting vras unani
mous that the tiok invasion was*question:.of •
' n&tiocftl iuiportaUue, -and. /thai ^Jths. *fork of :
: grappling with .it should bd undertaken «t..
onoe by-the Government.'!' . ^
' : • . . MELBOURNE. Tuesday, June 7.
' Tho.Minister.of Agriculture, Mr.Tayerner,:
- telegraphed to-day to the New South WaleB.
Minis terfor Agriculture'urging hiiri tohave
a proclamation issued 'prohibiting anyQueens
lan<i: stock from 'crossing into the mother
colony pending further-developments regard-:
ing the southward spread of the tiok pest..
BRISBANE, Tuesday, June 7
Mr. R. S.Archer, Chairman of. the Central
Queensland Stockowners' Association, has
telegraphed to the Minister for Agrioulture,
Mr. Chataw&y, congratulating him on haying
adopted-euoh a firm stand in referenoe to the
tick quarantine matters in his negotiations
with the Ministers of the other oolonies, and
assuring him of the support of that Associa
tion.
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