ENGLISH NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 167, 6 August 1879, Page 2

ENGLISH NEWS.

London, Aug. 3. The decision of the Court censuring Lieutenant Carey rc the Prince Imperial’s death was reversed, upon appeal to a Higher Court, which decided that it was illegal.

Lord Chelmsford has resigned. The Secretary of State for the Colonies in the House of Commons last night declined to produce papers relating to Australian defence, and regretted their publication in the colonies. Berlin, Aug. 2

Germany and the Vatican have come to an agreement as to the status of the Priesthood and Catholic subjects in the German Empire.

. ’ wims us new interesting in which cattle are ■ Ane Uruguay. According , hut the American plan is far .:.\prdilmua and clean than that "Tvhrcli is popular in Australia, but of this, our readers may form their own conclusions Attached to the yards there .are three corrals or yards. The first largest. Into this the herd is driven, arid a largo draft is taken in the second yard, from ■which a few at a time are driven into the third, a kind of lane. A lasso is thrown over the horns of one of the cattle in this lane, and a horseman, having two horses, pulls the rope or lasso, which goes over a pulley, by winch means the ox is pulled on to a carriage with his head agiflnst the door. Two men now stick their knives from above over the side into the back of the neck, the.animal falls down. The rope is let loose and comes off the horns ; the door risfis, and the carriage is pulled away into the shed ; another carriage is fished in, and the door falls. Meanwhile the horseman has come back. When the carcase . gets into the shed it is pulled off the carriage, and the neck is immediately cut, to let the blood out. The carcase is skinned, and the head cut off in the usual way, and the abattoirs, whicljt, are well floored with stone, are regularly washed town, and our informant kept scrupulously clean, although 1,000 Read are often disposed of in this way intone morning. One firm killed during the season ending June, 1878, no less than 140,000 head of cattle, of Avhich every ounce was put to some use. The special advantage of the truckingsystcm seems .to be that the skinning and other necessary work is done far from the spot where the beasts are waiting for slaughter.