SPORTING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6260, 6 January 1892, Page 3

SPORTING

Wellington, to-day. — Retina and Ranee Nuna have been scratched for the Wellington Cup.

While steam, as is well-known, requires 1 ,700 times more space than water, freezing also increases its volume by one-ninth. It is said that insanity is one of the scourges of Newfoundland, where intermarriage obtains. Two hundred thousand families, it has been calculated, are living in London on about Ll a week. One-fourth of the street railways of the United States are being operated wholly oiin part by electricity. Professor Max Muller estimates the number of Buddhists in the world to be 450,000,000. A scandalmonger is a person who talks to our neighbors about us. An entertaining talker is a person who tells us mean stories about our neighbors. Messrs Nelson Bro.'s freezing works were opened at "Woodville last week. The San Francisco Chronicle of a recent date devotes a leading article to the "intelligent compositor," from which we extract the following : — " Let us see what the compositor can do and does do every day of his life. He takes a manuscript, the chirography of which would make the lid of a Chinese tea chest blush with envy, translates it into the vernacular as he goes along, corrects the spelling ancl the grammar, and oftentimes the rhetoric, and turns it out not as the author wrote it, but as he intended to write it. He sets up better English than most men can write ; he can detect errors of fact as well as of style ; he can give the horse editor points on sporting matters, and religious editor on theology ; he can appreciate even the merits of a discussion on the tariff, and detect the fallacies in a profound leader on economics ; and he can do more hard and intelligent work in a "iven time than any other sort of handicraftsman. Setting off, then, his eccentricities and idiosyncrasies against his fund of general information, his knowledge of a wide range of subjects, and his ability to discriminate between good and bad literary work, it is surely no misnomer to call him the ' intelligent ; compositor." The H.B. Herald states : The Nortii British and Hawke's Bay Freezing Company are putting down the necessary plant at their works, Port Port Ahuriri, for freezing meat by the Hall process. Under this system, instead of using ammonia, sulphurous acid, ether, &c. , the inventors substitute carbonanhydride. This is a product of fermentation, akin to carbonic acid gas, and may either be collected from fermentation tins in breweries and distilleries, or may be manufactured direct by collecting the gases formed from the decomposition of certain materials, such as bicarbonate of soda, lime, &c, as is done in the manufacture of aerated waters. The working of the machine is easy to be understood when once the principle is grasped. The gas used is first compressed, and in thia state is warm. It is then cooled in a condenser formed of a long coiled pipe surrounded by water, and becomes a liquid. Like all compressed gases it exhibits a continuous tendency to expand, and, therefore, when liquified, to evaporate rapidly. It is allowed to evaporate in a refrigerator, and as it evaporates it follows a well-known law and abstracts caloric from the surrounding atmosphere so quickly that a lowered temperature is produced. It is claimed that the gas can be used over and over again almost indefinitely, only needing a small quantity to be added from time to time to make up losses.

♦ GISBORNE RACING CLUB'S SUMMER MEETING. Mr J. 0. Evett has declared the following weights for the meeting to be run on January ■ 19th and 20th ;— GRANDSTAND HAXDICAI'. Wakatipu ... 8 11 Man Friday... 7 0 PLnfire ... 810 Zanzibar !\. 612 Pani 8 8 Pekapu ... 6 10 Lochness ... 8 6 Beauley ... 6 7 Hakimana ... 7 8 Ratemau ... 6 7 Hapua ... 7 5 Cairngorm ... 6 7 FLYING HANDICAP. Kupenga ... 8 7 Puti 612 Scot Free ... 8 6 HuncaMan Friday... 712 munca ... 610 Avis 7 9 Stanley ... 6 9 Bay Bell ... 7 5 Ratamata, ... 6 7 Pouawa ... 7 2 Assassin ... 6 7 HURDLE RACE. Waterfall ... 11 12 Maccaroni ... 9 10 Caitiff ... 11 5 Bowsprit ... 9 5 Dnadihe ... 10 9 Stepper ... 9 0 Kupenga ... 910 PARK STAKES. Pani 8 11 Avis 7 8 Hakimana ... 8 0 Pouawa ... 7 0 Scot Free ... 7 11 Truthful ... 6 12 Kupenga ... 7 9 Stanley ... 6 7 Stockfish ... 7 8 Crescent ... 0 7 Man Friday .. 7 8 Assassin .. 6 7 Bay Bell ... 7 8 Acceptances close on Saturday next, 9th inst.