LLAMA, ALPACA, AND VICUNA WOOLS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 316, 24 December 1862, Page 4

LLAMA, ALPACA, AND VICUNA WOOLS.

At'the request of the Exhibition Committee we wrote to our agent in S} rdney, Mr Cubitt, asking him to endeavor to procure from the New South Wales' authorities samples of the various descriptions of wool, from the alpacas imported by Mr Ledger, and now in possession of the Government of that Colony. Unfortunately the samples did not come to hand in time for the Exhibition, but we have received, by the Airedale, a letter from our agent to the effect that the samples have been forwarded by that vessel, and enclosing an official letter on the subject. We have only to add that we shall be happy to place the samples at the- disposal of the Exhibition Committee, should they desire to exhibit them. The following is the letter referred to:-— •Department of Lands, Sydney, Bth December, 1862. Sib, —In compliance with the request contained in your letter of the Ist instant, I am directed by the Secretary for Lands to forward to you tho accompanying samples of alpaca, and llama wool, for the purpose of ..being-transmitted to Messrs Cutten and Vogel, at New Zealand, for exhibition, •it the show to be held at Dunedin, on the 16th. instant. 2. Mr A. Ledger, acting superintendent of the alpacas, states thac these samples do not show ihe proper length of the staple,the animals having only been shorn nine months ago. ' I hay« the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, •■- M. C. I?. FiTZPAxniojc. ; LIST. , : I and 2— 2 from llama. 3—l from alpaca, 4—l from do lamb. , s—l from Ist cross alpaca out of llama, 6—l from 2ad cross alpaca out of Ist erosF. 7—l from 3rd cross alpaca out of 2nd cross. B—l from 4th Ctoss alpaca out of 3rd cross. 9—l from paco vicuna out of female vicuna by malealpaca. ; . Extraordinary, tFi True. The Levant Herald of the 9t.h of August-isTcsponsible for the following: " An acridenl occurred on Friday la?t to ; a.labpurer on board the Liverpool steamey Sicilian, off the Stamboul Custom.house, which bidsfair;to add a remarkable 'case* to medical science. The man in question, a-Kuesian, was employed in the lower hold of the 'vessel'discharging iron bars, when one pt the latter, in course of being windlasses up. fell pfcrpmciicularly out of the parcel of which it formed part, from a height of nearly thirty feet, and, striking the poor fellow in the back, immediately below the heart, passed clean through bis .body and pinned him to the floor of the -vessel, into which, it eank considerably iaore thau aa inch. Instant attention was of course given to the poor fellow, j but it required the joint efforts of the chief officer and two of the crew to extract the bar. which was nearly two inches in diameter, first out of the deck and*then out of his body. Captain Bates, rffcer applying what'means lie could to check the losmorrhage, despatched the poor -HUne fo tljje British. Seamen's Hospital, where ODr Hoyland., the gurgeon-supei intendent, promptly > took charge of hUn, and succeeded, in stopping the bleed irifi altogether. Subsequent skilful care ha? k'ept'off Payer, and, marvellous as will he the cum' i&e&ed&d. biopes, we learn, are entertained cf saving the'nuui's