RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETUTNS.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1436, 15 September 1881, Page 4

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETUTNS.

[BY EIjECTKIC TET/ECHtAPH, UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, .Saturday. The following are tlie railway traffic lotumsfor the four weeks ending 23rd -July :- \ NORTH ISLAND Revenue Per Name lujtir-wecklj . tent. KlUlk.lU.l _ . ;£jIO II 2 \\ 1) iiif, r .irci-Kamo 171 11 t)6 ro \uckl mcl 5,445 9 10 6}.08 V.ipicr 2,127 30 5089 Wellington . 2 (65 1 9 76.44 \\ an^anui . 3,04"(5 19 3 61 76 Xow I'l\ mouth . 710 211 80.38 iotal . 14,306 811 66 22 MIDDLE ISLAND. Huiuniii-Hhiff .. 45,(62 o 4 44.94 (jiewnoulh 81014 9 47 8i \\estpoit 421 8 8 57.53 Nelson 598 9 7 70.98 Pictcm ... 615 3 7 62,D[ Total, 17,007 16 ii 15326 Grand lota), — 62,2-4 sjo 55 93 A noted politician B'xys, " Tlie press is a {."oat ink convenience sometimes." William L. Black, on dying: in Halifax a year atro, left his entire estate, worth halt a million, to his widow, though it w.ih known that ho had intended at one timu to cut her off with as little as possible. A peisou named F. H. B.iker claims to have effected the change of mind, and he now sues her for £200,000, tho sum which ho hays she agreed to give him for hit. services if successful. Tun vicissitudes, of life in Switzeiland have been repeatedly illustrated this year. At pic-ent an enoimous landslide is of piogiess in bigiiswell, above the Lake in Thun. Meadows, trees and houses are slowly slipping towards the lake. A few weeks ago 1,300 sheep, with their shopherds, were ovei whelmed by an avalance near Beigel in the Orisons, At Oonnemara, in the West of Ireland, the old women of the vicinity arc given the privilege of gathering the wool .scratched off the shpep's backs on the stones, hedges and bushes. This wool they then spin and knit into stockings, selliug them at 12-1 cents a pair. 'As many as 200 pahs aie knitted by one persou in a snason. A Boston paper says that a large company of visitors, machinists, pioVision dealers, &c, was lately atti acted to a new poik-packiujr establishment in East Cambridge, to witness the fiist performance ot a patent steam scraper for removing the biistlcs from hogs, lately invented by a young man in Indianapolis, a piactical packer. The principal feature of the machine consists of a perpendicular hollow iron cylinder, armed on the inside suifaoe with a series of flexible knivefli or scrapers, and permeated by jets of boiling water. The animal, after being killpd and scalded, is drawn by a hook attached to the under jaw into the lower eiid of ! this cylinder, and in two or three seconds emerges from the top completely denuded uf his biistly coat and washed whife and oleiin — much cleaner and nicer looking than by the old process of hand-scraping, to say nothing of the great naving of labour and time This machine pet forms the work usually assigned to a force >of one hundied men, and when 1 running up to its full capacity will turn out eight clean hogs every minute, the, average being five yesterday 'at a low 'rate of speed. By an automatio'arranerement thg loose bristled are raked from' tlie cylinder, while the carcaso is leleased from its hopk and passed over an inclined piano into the hands of the dressers, and "aftervrards travels by its own gravitatiojl over a trunk raiL through a 1 p'jiir of'folding, self-closing door 6, into thed'ooun^ room, the whole prooess not; oocupyin'g - more than a minute. ' ' " s ■ '"