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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 93, 8 August 1876, Page 2

There is a firm in San Francisco who purchase dead dogs at 40c. each. The skins are sold to the tanneries and made into gloves; the hair is bought by plasterers ; the carcases are boiled until the bones separate easily from the when the former are sold to the sugar refineries, where they are ground into powder and used for clarifying- sugar; and lastly, though not least, "cod liver" oil is manufactured out of the skimmings of the cauldron in which the carcases are boiled, while the flesh is used for fattening hogs. A Mrs. Freeman applied to the Bench at the Police Court, Grelong, a few day* since, for steps to be taken to compel !# son-in-law, in Dunedin, New Zealand, to support his five children. The " Geelong Advertiser" says the tale, if true, is a pitiable one. The son-in-law is said to be a leading elder in one of the Presbyterian Churches in Dunedin, and yet he fails to contribute to the support of his five children left with his mother-in-law. The matter being beyond the jurisdiction of the Bench, nothing could be done for the poor woman.