ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 187, 25 November 1876, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

A horrible case of cruelty was heard recently at the Arniidale * (New South Wales) Police Court. A haJf-castc, named Ann Aicorn, who was married to a shepherd employed by Mr. J. Gill, of Brookstead, was charged (says the local paper) with skinning a sheep while it was alive. When asked why she did it, she merely laughed. The only defence attempted was to urge that the sheep was dying, and that as the shepherd was accountable for the skins, he left his wife behind to flay the animal while he went on with the flock. The police magistrate who heard the case said he could not realise the unutterable cruelty and shocking depravity of the act, the animal remaining alive after it had been flayed. A correspondent of the Times describes in the columns of that journal a "vast and singularly well-regulated establishment for the education and cultivation of pigs," which exists at Buda-Pesth. It contains 16,000 pigs, in pens holding from 100 to 200 each, the animals being divided into two main classes, viz., those which

voluntarily seek the means of purification, and those which make a virtue of necessity, and submit philosophically to be cleaned with a hose. The pi?s are brought down from the country when fifteen months old, and fed upon brewing refuse, maize, and barley, ad. lib. , salt and other condiment being used to increase their appetites. The consequence is that the pigs faten very rapidly. " The most remarkable," says the correspondent, " were the woolly pigs, with curly bristles, resembling fleece, which is said to be worked into some of the eoa-se textile fabrics of the country. They are well deserving of the attention of English breeders, for by careful cultivation, pigs' wool might become useful material for yarn. This establishment belongs to a joint stock company, and pays a handsome dividend. The same wtiter mentions the gigantic brewery of the Dreher Company of Vienna, situated at Kobanya, near Pesth. The caves in which the beer is stowed are hewn out of solid sandstone, and form a subterranean town of innumerable halls. A walk through the main streets of this underground city of beer occupies threequarters of an hour.