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Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9251, 28 November 1891, Page 2

Nominations for the following events at the Opunake Racing Club Meeting close on Siturday next (December 5) :—Handicap Hurdles (10s) ; Flying Handicap (10a) ; Opunake R.C. Handicap (£1 10s) ; Opua Stakes Handicap (10). Weights are duo on December 10. For further particulars, those inter sted, are referred to the programme which, appears in this issue. The following teams have been selected to play for the Old Players and New Plymouth Club respectively in the match on Thursday next: —Players—Messrs Witchell, Kettle, Knyvett, McKellar, McAllum, Hammond H., Sarten, Attrill, Jacob, Major Tuke, and Murphy. New Plymouth Clvb — Messrs Ogle, Cunningham, Rawlinson, Millar, Morey, Ramson, Goldwater, Parker, J. Allen, Teed, and Bennett. Emergencies : Lash, Parker, A. Okey. Captain Cornwell will act as umpire. The game will start at 10 { o'clook, so that a two innings match can be played. The weights for the Spring, Flying, Hurdles, and First Pony Handicaps at the Summer Meeting, will be declared on Saturday next.. Major Marshall, late 65th Regiment( who did good service in the Maori troubles, died at Marton on November 25th. Mr Harris Ford, Iron, secretary of the Recreation Grounds Board, begs to acknowledge 8s through tha donation box in the grounds. The annual temperance eermon will be preached in the Wesleyan Church on Sunday evening. —Advt. Mr Isaac Selby opens his course of lectures to-morrow afternoon, on the interesting topic, " From Atheism to | Christianity, and what I learned on the way." In the evening the churches will be closed in time to allow of tho members attending the lecture on " Moses and Darwin, or have we come from monkeys." The chairmen for tho different lectures are the Revs. Fairclough, McDonald, and Carr, and the Mayor. Mr Selby should have a I very successful season amongst us. Mr J. Munro, saddle and harness manufacturer, has a business notice in another column, to which attention is directed. We call attention of our readers that entries for the Spring Cattle Show close with the Secretary, Mr C. T. Mills, on Saturday next, at 5p m. The prizes havo been considerably increased this year, and now the d strict is in a better condition no doubt the entries will be more numerous. Prizes for the jumping contest at the forthcoming Show have been increased to £5 first, £3 second, and £1 third. This should be a great inducement for owners to try the merits of their horses. Jt will be seen by advertisement that Mr Newton King will hold a clearing sale of Mrs Bowen's furniture on Wednesday next, at her residence, above Messrs White & Carter's Public Benefit Stores. The piano, which is by a well-known London firm of manufacturers, is almost a new instrument, having only been in use a few months. To persons in want of furniture this should be a good opportunity, as Mrs Bowen is leaving New Plymouth, and Ins given positive instructions to sell. Mr F. P. Corkill reports the sale to a local gentleman of the six acre property on the South Road, forming part of the eßtato of the late Mr Ward. Price not disclosed. Tho total cordage required for a firstrate man-of-war ship weighs about 80 tons, and exceeds £3 jOO in value. Iron expands with heat. So if railway rails w ere laid to exactly meet one another a piping hot summer day would result in the destruction of the track. It is 400 miles from London to Edinburgh, and on the aver ige the railway lines that lie between the two places are 340 yards longer ! in summer than in winter. M. Eiffie',tho daring civil engineer who conceived the tower in Paris which bears his name, lives up on the Jungfrau, in the Swiss Alps. Ho has just obtained permisnion to build a railway up the mountain to his very dwelling. Mmo. Sarah Bernhardt has just bought by cable a large tract of land at Neuilly, a suburb of Paris, for £10,000, all made during her recent Australian and American tour. It is suid that she will build a veritable palace after she has finished her travels. An elephant larger than Jumbo has been captured in Africa. Diamonds have been found in British Guiana, where a gold mine owner recently collected 3,38 ) stones. An expert in Lon don declared 633 of the specimens to be diamonds of the purest water. An instrument for automatically taking the profile of the bed of a river ha* been brought out in Germany. A curved rod projects over tho stern of a vessel and trails on tho bottom, rising and falling with the depth. The rod moves on an axis, and tho smaller or inboard arm records tho indications on a drum. The apparatus has been tested on tho Elbe, and it has been found that it does its work at the rate of 30 miles a day. A modification of tho arrungoiuents will be found useful for tnking transverse sections of tho shallow parts, where there may be moro than one channel. The instrument should be of great"value in river surveying. .