The Ashburton Guardian.

Vol xxi. no. 5281

Ashbubton ; Wednesday, October 10, 1900*

peice :One Penny.

A Minute With a Millionaire.

Nobody who has borne the burden and heat of the day could have looked cooler than John Davison Rockefeller, the Standard Oil Trust King, of Ohio, U.S.A, the other evening. Mr Rockfeller doen not know to * hundred thousand pounds or two what bis income for any given year may bt —between two and three millioni sterling. He is far and away the richest man in the world, and he has made every penny that he has in the last thirty yean. How did you know I had corns over from Paris? he said to an JZxpreet Specialist:, and yet I suppose I should not inquire too closely. What can I do for you ? It was a kear>, alert face, with the I nshpslft complexion that "young Ame rica" is so "proud of? spare, well* 1 habitfd figure, with an air of dignity, enthusiasm, and self-repression that betokens blood, brains, and brawn mingled—perfected Democracy, alwayi travelling in a Pullman drawing room car r *whoee every word is well weighed in iho golden scales of silence before utterance. Touching that reported offer of £200,000 per *nnom to any one who will • relieve jpu of the trouble of; looking after 1 ycur own interests—no other man can do this for yon, Mr Rockefeller ? That's bo. It is sheer nonsense. Though that would be a ttnall price to pay to be free from worrivp. But, ■>■■ you cay, no one can ease me of my own burden, America, Mr Rockefeller! Are there good times ahead ? I think so—solid and good. With every Presidential election our system of government grows, stronger acd wiser. Our people benefit;. And commercially ? Wo are very strong ar.d alwayi hopeful. Personally, you are very busy on this side ? I can't help it. I dont want to be —but I am, and very tired. Yet every moment has its own interest. Thank you, Mr Rockefeller,-— London Express

ARGENTINA.

An Australian who is well acquainted with the leading phases of the pastoial industry went lately for a trip to the Argentine Republic, via New Zealand. On arrival in England he was interviewed by the " British Australasian", a journal devoted to the doings of British depend etcies. The traveller g%ve the reporter some interesting information, and a precis of it I give herewith. Asked aboab the facilities for loading stock the reply was:— ••The Argentine is far ahead of us in Australia. Whereas we load frem the sides of the trncks they load from the end of the train, which falls down and pract ically makes a platform. Again, in the Argentine they have a law thafc no stock is allowed in the train more than 30 hours, otherwise they have to be removed at the railway companies' expense, and fed and watered. Our Government railways hare no law like this. They keep the stock in the train as long as they like. In the Argentine Republic stock can take precedence of all other trains. We ate 20 years behind the Argentine in railways. Referring to the frozen meat trade he said that the producers are simply coining money under the existing paper currency, which permits of their selling their produce for gold and paying all wages and rates in paper ri-oney. As regards the trade in live Btock, owing to foot-and'mouth disease being rampant all ovei the country, there was iittle hope of succeisful trade with Great Britain. At every meat works a Government Veterinary burgeon is fonnd to see that no diseased meit i* exported, whilst; an English butcher is employed to see the tilling, and dressing ot the me&fe to cult the English taste. Speaking on the labour question he cays:—"The labour is I'ailan, Basques, and ratlves. They work at dawn until dnsk for comparatively low wages. All they receive in the way of food h meat and mate—a nativatea— and the estancferos assured me that they never had any trouble with the workmen. Thus, so far aa labour Is concerned, the Australian people are not In it. Of course that is one of the reasons why the Sooth Americans can undersell ua." The follow* ing is of vital interest to our stock breeders :—All first-class stock from Australia will fetch high prices in the Argentine. Fifteen hundred guineas i« nothing for the South Amercian estancieroa to glv* for a good bull. They can get pedigee stock cheaper from Australia than from England, and there is no doubt that if we in Australia could get a regular line of steameis round the world, via the O»pe there would be a very large number of buyers from the Piate in Australia* What we want is a regular connection between Buenos Ayres and Capetown to complete the circle." " What aboub freight?' "Freight, of course, from the Argentine to Enghnd is very much lower than thit from Australia, owing to the fact that the Plate is only about half the f distance from England.'



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