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Show An Australian Cattle King. (New York Commercial.) r The cattle king of Australia is Samuel McCaughey, an Irishman, who went to Australia in 1S56 with practically nothing. noth-ing. He did not succeed well at first, but started again with a small flock, and from year to year has added to his holdings, hold-ings, untii now he has more sheep than any other man in the world. He has more acres of land than sheep, and his possessions are in the best parts of Australia. Aus-tralia. One of his farms on the Darling j downs is thirty-six miles long and forty miles wide. Altogether he owns more than 1,000,000 acres, and leases about, a million or so more. |