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Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 45, 13 August 1872, Page 3

PitoTxrrnoN of Vaccink Matter in Tin.; [Jnitko Stan:-:. —The room in which the heifers are i<ept is light, warm, and airy, —;i perfectly finished room, inde< d, with plasten-d walls and ceiling, nnd Hie stalls are built with sis great regard to comfort ;md neatness us llio.su of a yenl lonian's stable. Dry sawdust is fiirirshcd f>r he'd ling, ;m I the best hay with meal mashes for fool Under (lie larift* south window stands a peculiar '■ operating tahlc:," with a to. winch filds down, two projecting arms then coining to Hie floor, as if forming extra legs. Tin; lieifer selected is led out, placed alongside Hi's table, and its fore feet secured by fastening* attached to one arm, and its hind le;_>-s in like manner to the other. A stout belt encircles its body and the flat top of the table, and a halter and neck-strap holds its head in place in one corner. Then tho whole top is tilted up to its place and secured, and the bovine martyr to science is recumbent on one side upon the top ot the table. A portion of its abdomen, nboiit the size of two full-grown hands, is then shaved clean, and the vaccine virus from another heifer, ao tho seventh day of the disease, is inserted in litile punctures arranged in rows an inch apart each way. The table-top is again canted down, and the little boast released and installed til! seven days niter, when its vasiclcs are ripe for the supply of lymph to another heifer and the human race in general. It is then replaced on the table, and the operator taking a bnx of small ivory points, prepared for that purpose, a rack for the same to dry o.i, and a, pair of peculiar shaped slim pliers, sols himself at the side of the tabu. Willi this pliers he gently squeezes each pestule in turn, and as the lymph oozes forth carefully collects it on the ivory points. Krom a go'd yielding animal several hundred points can be charge I. This done, the heifer returns to her stall, an I remains a lew days longer, when the "crusts," having mat.ired, are carefully taken off and mounted in gut la percha lor the use of those physicians who prefer tlr's form of ad ministration. The heifer, then, having fulfilled its mission, returns to private life. The operation is conducted with such care to avoid unnecessary suffering or even inconvenience to the animal that it freq'iently goes to sleep on the table and does not evince any pain. Two asrenls for the prevention of cruelty toan'niils recently visited the place, and after seeing the whole process declared themselves satisfied that no cruelty was inflicted. The ivo'-y i points, after being charged uni becoming dry, ore carefully placed, ten in a bunch, and wound with cotton fibre. Then white paper is wrapped around them, and lastly rubber-tissue, which is tied at the end, producing a watertight and air-tight package. These, then, are packed in any desired quantity, and shipped to fill orders. —" Massachusetts paper.

The " LytteltoH Times," writing , on the superintendeutal combination, says :—"Look at it in whatever wny we will, the programme of the Uhra-Provincialista is inimical to the public interest. 11 is not, as we said recently, the fate of this or that Ministry which is at stake, but the fate of the policy of the public works ami Immigration, and consequently of the colony, The Superintendents, if we understand the announcements that have been made aright, are quite willing to be nominated under the direction and control of the General Government, but in reality they would be altogether irresponsible either to them or to the taxpayers. The Government would have all the responsibility of raising the money required for public works, of meeting the liabilities incurred, and the Provincial authorities would have all the pleasure—without any responsibility whatever — of spending. That is what their proposal, or rather their demand means, when we expand it to its possible dimensi"ns. The idea of a Government accepting responsibility for the acts of -virtually irresponsible persons is in itself bad enough, but when it is coupled with the conditions that the Government shall, nolens volens, dedicate its powers to agents, some of whom are bitter and rabid opponents of the policy to which the colony is committed, and from which it cannot recede without disaster, we have preseoted to us a proposal which is simply an outrage on cemmou sense."

Charles A. Smith, aged nine years, son of a co- ! lonial civil nervant, has had tlie Humane Society's Hilvcr medal, and other testimonials presented to him for Having the life of an infant brother who had fallen jnto the river Yarnt, at Melbourne. i It is stated that somewhere near Akbarpore, in ; the district of Fyzabad, a boy was found in the den of a wolf. He cannot epeak, is very lean, and emaciated, likes to live in retired places, and devours raw meat.— Bombay Gazelle.