Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1892 — Buffalo in Australia. [ARTICLE]

Buffalo in Australia.

“Comparatively few Australians,” remarks a Melbourne journal, “are aware that part of their own country—the northern territory—has vast herds of Wild buffalo roaming over its plains and! , wallowing in its shady pools. The animal* are massive and heavy, with splendid horns and afford sport of a sufficiently dangerous nature to possess charms for the most daring hunter. The first buffaloes were landed at Port Essington in 1829 by order of the imperial government, and after sixty years’ uninterrunted ; increase thsir numbers ihre now ;tonishing.” ‘