NEW METHOD OF MEAT PRESERVING.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3521, 10 March 1897, Page 2

NEW METHOD OF MEAT PRESERVING.

The editor of the Wanganui Herald was recently shown a forequarter of mutton which had been treated to an altogether new preserving process, and which had been hanging in a very close out- I office for the past few days. The meat was found to be sweet, and a further test is to b*S made by sending a carcase as % general cargo to Auckland and back by One of the steamers leaving for that port; The fact of the Wh temperature of the vessel's hold should be a good test, and the result will be awaited with interest. It is stated that the cost of preserving one hundred and fifty sheep would be about sixpence for that number, and the time I taken between fifteen and twenty 1 minutes. The inventor claims that the meat will keep perfectly fresh for seven days, in the hottest weather or in the worst ventilated room it can be placed in. There can be np hesitation in stating' that if this invention proves a success it will be a great boon to the butchering trade and to the public generally, and it is proposed after the trial to form a company to patent it throughout the world. It may be mentioned that the invention refers to the preserving of all kinds of animal food, and particularly fish.

A start has been made with the foundation for the Ballance memorial statue, to be erected on the lawn fronting tho Parliamentary Buildings, Wellington.

A HOKBOK OF THE GEEAT THIKST LAND. The following are the full particulars of an awful occurrence recently referred to in the cables : —"William Edward Francis, a young man who has just returned to Geraldton, Western Australia, relates a recent terrible experience in the bush. He left Lake Way, on the 11th of last month for Cue with a man named Charleß Freeman. After goiDg 16 miles they came to a well, but did not know that a dry stage of 40 miles followed, and so merely filled their water-bag and then proceeded. The temperature was about 120deg. in the shade, and the water was gone by noon, when they were ten miles from the well. After going five miles further Freeman gave np, and lay down. Francis tried to coa* him to continue, but he would not rise. 4 * He atked mc," says Francis," to go ahead for water. I started, and thought water was only a few miles away, When I had got over four miles I also fell down, and remained there until the following Friday morning, 68 hours altogether and suffered horrible agony. On the second day after I fell down I Btabbed my wrist with my knife, and had a drink of blood. I was discovered at daybreak by three prospectors. When found I was mad and had all my clothing torn off mc. The day after they took mc to the well I began to shout for Charlie. 1 told them he was my mate, and that I had left hira four miles beyond wherp they found mc. They went back aud took mc with them. We found his body where he had fallen. He had apparently been dead three days."