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DISEASE AMONG THE CAPE SHEEP. 
A whiter in the Anglo-African Advertiser , Graham’s town, 
October, 10th, 1861, who signs himself G. R.,” says that 
“ we are informed, on authority which we can rely on, that a 
new disease or sickness has appeared amongst the flocks of 
sheep in this and some of the adjoining districts, by which 
the animals attacked cast their entire fleeces. Rams, wethers, 
and dry ewes are most subject to it; and as yet, it cannot 
be attributed to any known cause. No deaths, however, 
have occurred from it.” 
DISEASES AMONG THE PIGS IN AMERICA. 
The Wayne Press , New York, states that the disease 
termed cc hag-cholera” is raging among the pigs at the dis¬ 
tilleries in Clyde. One persons had lost something like 
1200 pigs in a short time. The animals are reported to be 
dying at the rate of sixty to a hundred a day. 
AUSTRALIAN DAINTIES. 
How far the voracious appetite of the million mouths of 
modern Babylon may insist on extending the list of edibles 
only a wild imagination can conjecture, or searching natural 
science divine. The meat of the eland, the horse, and the 
ass, have already been pronounced excellent. Letters from 
Australia open up the vista of a more varied and heteroge¬ 
neous bill of fare. A banquet of a remarkable character has 
been held at Melbourne. It was given under the auspices of 
an Acclimatization Society, set on foot by Mr. Edward Wil¬ 
son, who has rendered great service to the colony of Victoria 
by introducing foreign animals, game, and singing birds. 
The Society, which is described as being now numerous and 
including several active members, served up a number of the 
native animals, birds, and fishes. The carte comprised kan¬ 
garoo, wallaby, wombat, bandicoot, opossum, and porcupine, 
amongst the animals; black swan, wild turkey, paroquet, 
water-hens, and wattle-birds, amongst the fowls; and most 
of the fish of the Australian salt and fresh waters. Surely 
this is deserving the attention of Mr. Lowe and Mr. Buck- 
land, the active and intelligent secretaries of the Acclimati¬ 
zation Society of England, who should by no means waste 
all their valuable energies in holding meetings, and reading 
and writing interesting reports. 
