Show australian BUFFALOES row rev of tile lie inhabitants know of U although I 1 havo bave been over thirty kovan years lit in australia says a writer in tile tho brisbane li new zealander it ana Is not until eighteen months acro ago that I 1 was aware that there was a breed of w ild buffaloes in these colonies and I 1 venture to say that not one por per cent of tho inhabitants of queensland or oven even half that number are arc aware of 0 thu the fact curiously enough I 1 have two simultaneous inquiries about bliem theaone the mone tie from prot prof wallace of edinburgh anti and tit the a other fro from a gentleman in michigan U S A I 1 laid myself out to make full inquiries on alio subject audit and it has occurred to mo me that the public will bo be in te terestea rested to know the result mr 11 11 II purcell Pu who has seen beveral of them in alio far north and was preheat at tit alio deuth of one gave g avo mo inoa a minute description of them which tallies exactly with aliat I 1 learned from other sources mr 13 1 I 1 palmer M L A informs me that one of the islands on the northern c coast is fully stocked with them and isol isolated abed bulls from tho the lierd on the mainland occasionally casio nally find their way as far east cast as one of ills his gulf stations and that cral have readied reached mr air lawn if hill ill station in ir dr Lelch hardts journal of liia ilia expedition from moreton bay to port Essing tont in 18 1814 14 5 lie mentions that mr air roper and the black boys charley and 1111 Il rown ran down clown and shot cliot ono one thirty miles I 1 from rom port Es hington anti and that they were said to bu be numerous there and were called by the blacks a 11 leichhardt Lelch hardt states that they are tho the offspring of tile the stock which had either cither strayed fro from in tho the settlement at raffles bay or I 1 lind lid been left behind when that establishment was broken up they were originally introduced from tho the malay islands I 1 was wa struck with tho the remarkable thickness of thell theli skin almost an inch and with tho the solidity of their bones which contained marrow but that little was extremely savory mr palmer states that tho the bull killed on his run weighed almost a ton was extremely broad and well weli developed in the fore quarters j but tapering off in tho the hindquarters I 1 next directed my inqui riesto the museum and hero here I 1 was most fortunate in getting information from tho man above aill nUo herpin in quee 1111 blost AV r 7 their gr po showed mo me th the e head a and d horns of ono one of these buffaloes that made its way east wardin the direction action of charters towers and was shot there tome two y ars ago tho the horns tire are most remarkable being square at thin the butt anti and four inches thick they ri iise se ina in a deml circle but incline backward so that the animals when they charge which they to do furiously have to put the their ir heads between their forelegs fore legs the llie horns borris are extremely coarse corrugated and of a dirty brown color mr ing ng corroborated the statements of palmer and purcell as to t lie bul T inloes being very numerous in nany thousands at port agton sallies fles bay and andt elville Melville viand aman A man ains ja been enga engaged ged f for r a number of years hooting them and making a handsome income by selling the hides on account of tho extreme thickness of tilde hide they resist an ordinary cartridge and heavy leaden bullets have to be used they are what are arc familiarly known us as nind mini buffalo having very little hair 0 on altheir their bodies which are of a dirty rl reddish brown color it may not be generally known that a number ot of timor ponies were intro luech at port Us with the buffaloes thebe have also increased to a large lar c berd and mr spalding describes thein as exceedingly handsome little animals |