Untitled

Western Star, Issue 1575, 1 July 1891, Page 2

Professor .Tames Long bids us consider what refrigeration has done—not for agriculturists merely, hut also foi trade and commerce. It u refrigeration that has made it possible for Now Zealand alone to send us four and a half million carcasses o"f mutton. It has even created that colony's butter trade. It has, moreover, enabled our meat salesmen in Smifchfiel 1 to pritpct themselves, by a vast system of underground storage, against the heavy losses which thev used to suffer from hot summers. It has also made it practicable for many great firms to buy meat and game when it is cheap, anr! store if for use when wanted. Ir Hamburg thero is a butcher wh •daughters 1000 pigs every day for th< EngH«h market. But for refngeratio! ; his system would bo impossible. Th' advantages of cold storage, however seem still far from being fully ap predated. Mr Long tells us that tin burners in Wales and many part? o England, who supply the market wit' what is known as "tab butter " at Sr 1 to lid a pound might store it quit' fivsh at little more expense than tha of the abundant salt used under thf present system, and thus furnish at ' article worth in many cases from 2" to 35 per cent, more than they ar< j now getting for it. i

ITollo'way's Pills ami Ointment exe.H a rapidly favourable effect in all thos' diseases which are induced by esposun to damp or by great changes in tomperature. They will therefore be found eminently serricoablo to those who work in iron foundries, copper mines and colleries. These well-known remedied present manifest advantages in respect of use and offeclivenpss buiny; entirely compounded of vpge tablo drugs selected with the greatest care and regardless of pric<\ When used in accordance with the ample printed directions which accompany them, they act surely but mildly, ane" do not interfere with the diily work There are but tVv.- disease* which aiv not capable of cure —or, or all events. of great relief —if Ilolloway's remed ies are persoveriugly usod.

The Auckland Herald learn* on the highest authority th;tt the following is tho approximate itifcontioii as to the movoments of tho ships of tho now Australian eqnadron. Tboy .are expected to rendezvous at Batavin on the 30th .Tiilf, anil will prooecd thonoo to Thursday Island, leaving Sydney about tho third wock in Soptooibcr, and tbonue going to Melbourno and Adelaide. Tho ships to bo laid up will then return to Sydney. Tho remainder of tho squadron will be dispersed between Froemantlc, Uobart aud .Vow Zealand pert*. The two dostiucd for tbia colony may bo expected iu October.