LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Colonist, Volume XIII, Issue 1284, 14 January 1870, Page 4

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Bluff, Jan. 10. The s.b. Claud Hamilton, Captain Underwood, arrived at the Bluff at dajlight this morning, from Melbourne. She left Hobson's Bay at 7 p.m. on the 4th ; passed Cape Schanck at 11.30 p.m., and experienced westerly winds during the passage across; passed the Solanders at 8 p.m. on the 9th, and had to slow the engine on account of a heavy N.W. gale. Entered Bluff Harbor at daylight on the 10th. Melbottbne, Jan. 4. The schooner Albertine, from Mauritius, is ordered on for Hokitika by her agents. Eerosene has reached 2s. 3d. Thomas Webb Draper has been committed for trial on a first charge of embezzling £900. J. P. Dalton, formerly Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, is dead. Captain Corrigan, of the ship Napoleon Third, has been convicted of drunkenness, and his certificate suspended for r>ne year. Mr. Wardell, Inspector of General Public Works, has gone home by the mail steamer. Mr. Quiney, formerly employed by Mr. Glen, music-seller, as collector, has absconded for embezzling money. Flour is a trifle firmer at £11 to £12; wheat, 6s. 4d.; oats, 3s. lOd. Speculation has taken place in rice; 15,000 bags Patna sold at a price not stated. A rumour has been circulated that Mr. Valentine, Manager of the Commercial Bank, has resigned, but it is contradicted. Telegraphic charges have been reduced. The Rev. A. M. Ramsay, Presbyterian Minister, Collins-street, died on the 31st December. There is no truth in the report that General Chute has been re-called. Business, owing to the holidays, is very dull. Sydney, Jan. 4. Mr. Frazer, Manager of the Colonial Bank at Inverell, has been killed by a fall from his horse. Tenders have been accepted for £58,000 New Zealand Treasury Bills from par to 10s. premium. A company is formed for the Pacific mail route via California and New Zealand. Sydney races—Tattersall's Cup was won by Al. Adelaide, Jan. 3. The flour market is hardening: a scanty crop is expected. Flour, £10 12s. 6d. The Post-office and Telegraph Departments have been amalgated under Superintendent Todd.

Another illusion of these later times has just, been dissipated. The moderns fancied they had invented pins, which, it appears, were known and very well made 3000 years ago. The proof is that twenty-five of tliem have just been placed in the Louvre, Musee diaries X., in a glass case before the door of the ceramic collection of Napoleon 111. They were found by M. Mariette iv the subterraneous vaults of Thebes.— Enlr' Acte.

On November Ist, an extensive conflagration took place at the works of the GHasgow Jute Company. Several thousand pounds' worth of property were destroyed. Killing and Wounding in Ireland.—While the Rev. James Dunne, parish priest, Belturbet, was returning from the Cavan tenant-right meeting on Nov. 1, in company with a number of his parishioners, near Drummallee, shots were fired from a party in ambush. A man named Edward Morton was shot dead. Several others were wounded. The horse in the car, in which the priest and curate were seated, was shot dead. Eight arrests have been made on suspicion.—Another murder is reported from Ireland. A farmer, named Hunt, was waylaid at a place called Goolanep, in Sligo, and so brutally beaten that he died in a few hours. Some arrests have been made. The cause of the outrage is not known. Notices have been posted up near Ballymahon and at Moydow and Camckedrnond, threatening to shoot Mr. Cusack, :ieent over the property, and announcing that if he does not give up the land to a certain man, they will treat him as they treated the late Alexander Freyne. —A ploughman in the employment of Mr. Cusack lias also been threatened. A large body of police were sent from tbe dep&t, Phoenix Park.—Ou Oct. 25 we heard that a landlord named O'Brien, residing near Mohill, in the county Leitrim, had been brutally murdered. His body was discovered in a field close to his own house. The face and head were greatly mangled. A wound behind the ear showed that he had also been shot. Mr. William O'Brien was an inoffensive and retiring gentleman, and it is supposed that he in some way earned the hostility of tenants. —A man named Gargau, the steward of Mr. Farrall, of Moynalty, was fired at on October 26. A similar attempt was made on the same man in June last, Owen Smith has been arrested by the constabulary on suspicion.—A double-barrelled gun aud a five-i-hambered revolver were found concealed beneath the lireplace.—Mr. Brett, county surveyor of Limerick, was fired at on October 27, through the window of hU parlor at his residence, Rathkeale, and dangerously wounded. One arrest has been made. The attempt mv Mr. Brett's life was not agrarian. He had a dispute with a road contractor named Bourke, who met him on his return from an inspection. After some angry words with him in his house he went out. In a few minutes a pistol-shot was fired through the parlor window. Half a dozen pellets lodged in his side, on broke his watch chain, another grazed his watch and lodged in the chair. He is not dangerously wounded. It is the second attempt on his life.

The buildings and stockyards of the New Jersey Stockyard and Market Company cover fifteen acres of Ground, and the capacity of this establishment for slaughtering and preparing is, of beeves, 7000; hogs, upwards of 35,000; and of sheep over 25,000 per week. The slaughtering and dressing of a bullock requires from ten to twelve minutes, and for hogs and sheep still less. The abattoir proper, or slaughterhouse, is 620 feet long by 60 feet wide, with an L 100 feet long by 40 feet wide; and another building 40 feet by 40 feet for slaughteriug sheep. AH these buildings are of two storeys. A steam-eiigine of twelve-horse power drives shafting for hoisting, &c, and the buildings are plentifully supplied with pure cold and hofc water, of which vast quantities are used. The hog department is on the second floor. As the swine arrive by the cars they are driven into large pens in a building 800 by 100 feet. Here the animals are fed, and furnished with water ad libitum. Alleys are arranged with gates, through which, when opened, the hogs are led or driven to the second storey of the slaughterhouse. An animal being selected and a small chain attached to his legs, it is hoisted to the iron rod, squcaliug and struggling with characteristic vigor and obstinacy. The " sticker" then inflicts the fatal stab in the throat, aad the, hog is slid along the rail toward the scalding trough to make room for others; and ere this one is dead it has been joined by a dozen of its companions. In this department three men and a boy are required. The scalding tank is 12 feet long by 5| feet wide, and is attended by two men. As soon as the hog is scalded sufficiently he is floated to a sort of rotating grating, by which he is lifted out and rolled upon a scraping table, at which are 14 men, seven on each side. The first two take the bristles and long stiff hairs, which are saved in barrels. The animal is then passed to the next eight, four on each side, who are designated " scrapers." They take off the bulk of the hair and pass the hog along to the last four, who are called " cleaners ;" these clean the head and feet and more difficult purts. At the end of the table stands a man known a3 the " gambrel cutter;" he puts in the gambrel, and again the hog is suspended on a circular railway. The carcase, umopened as yet, is passed at once to the " gutters," who stand at the end of the fat-cleaning table. Their duty is to take out the intestines, liver, heart, and lungs, which is all done at once, and deposited by them on the fat-c!eaning tabh, where six men are employed for that purpose. The fat, liver, heart, and intestines are steamed in tanks. The iiog is next passed to the washer, where it is thoroughly washed and scraped down with a large knife. The carcase is now ready for the drying room. At the head of the drying room there is a one-track railway, on which in run, on a wheel and hook like the rust, a twopronged lever or fork. This fork is so placed as to lift the hog by the gambrel, and transport him frcm the dressing rack to one of the ' slides' in the drying room. He ia then placed in the elide, pushed back •dose to his fellow, and left to draiu and cool. The

fat, aa fast as it is cleansed, is carted by means of box trucks to the rendering tanks, ten in number, each 'of which has a capacity sufficient for the fat from 1000 hogs. The steam is condensed, and the offal and blood used in manufacturing fertilisers.

Hollowat's Pills and Ointment. —Diseases of Women. —Medicnl science in all ages has been directed to alleviate the many maladies incident to females ; but Professor Holloway, by diligent study and attentive observation, was induced to believe that nature had provided a remedy for those special diseases. He has, after vast research, succeeded in compounding his celebrated Pills nnd Ointment, which embody the principle naturally designed for the relief and cure of disorders pecixliar to women of all ages and constitutions, whether residing in warm or cold climates. They have repeatedly corrected disordered functions which have defied the usual drugs prescribed for such cases ; and still more satisfactory is it, that the malady is relieved completely and permanently. — Aclvt.