THE GOTHIC'S REFRIGERATOR.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11932, 17 February 1894, Page 3

THE GOTHIC'S REFRIGERATOR.

FLETCHER'S PILLS never foil to euro INDIGESTION. COSTIVENESS, SOUR BREATH, HEARTBURN, LIVER DISEASE, and KIDNEY COMPLAINTS. FLETCHER'S PILLS awl CLEMENTS TONIC arc the recognised household remedies of the Australian colonies, and every designing quack tries to trade on their reputation and renown. This is the greatest proof of their merit, and sufferers want to be particular to get the genuine articles as regret and disappointment aro sure to follow the uso of the thousand of " All-failiug " remedies so freely advertised. The reputation and wide-spread use of Clements Tonic and Fletcher's Pills are the greatest proofs of their appreciation by tho public. If they were not as represented they would have passed out of memory long ere this ; but instead their sale is greater and they are more estsemed day by day and week by week, and this emphatically proves their undisputed supremacy. Listen to no argument from interested parties ; demand the genuine articles and TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE.

The fourth roport, which has just been received from Mr. Lowe, deals very largely with a refrigerator with which the new Shaw, Savill, and Albion Compan's boat, Gothic, is fitted. From this we lenrn that she has a capacity for 70,000 sheep, and 400 tons of butter and cheese The system of refrigeration is known as Hall's Carbonic Anhydride." and consists of three parts :— (1) Tho compressor (the old moving part, in which the gas drawn from tho evaporator is compressed; (2) the condenser, consisting of coils, in which the comprossed warm gas is cooled and liquified by tho action of cooling water; and (3) the evaporator, consisting of coils, in which tho liquid carbonic anhydride evaporates, producing any do^ree of temperature that may be required down to'fiOdeg. below freusing point F. Carbonic nnliydrklo is a non-poisou'ous gas, and tho quantity originally put into tho machine' is used i over and dyer again, anil only a very small amount is Over nepded to replace accidental iosa. The gas can be sent in steel cylinders all over tho world, arid tho cost is vory small, being only about £7 tor a 21 -ton ice plant. The system has nevor been previously tried on a Jong voyage although it has [men in operation botivoen the .River flato and' Liverpool.' ' {Jiilike the systems of refrigeration at present used jn flio Now Zealand frnde, )jo pool ajr. Pr indeed, air (' f any kjud. is pumped iutp thpeharnheru, »!ld therefore no nioisture is introduced.' This a pure nir Bystom, and tho chamber will contain only the original atmosphere which was onclosed when it was hermetically fastoned down. Attached to each chamber, howovur, is an exhaust fan to draw oil, ovory few ilnye, any gases or odours that may bo given off from butter, cbeose, fruit or othor produce Thevu will bo no snow in tho Gothic'B chambers and consequently tho boxos or kegs of butter should come out as dry, or oven drier, tliiin when they wero stowed away. It is claimed, too, that tho temperature of tho freezing chamber can be kept ■^ almost uniform throughout a voyage with t^ry little trouble. Mr. Lowe reports tfiat the prices current for New Zealand butter for the wetk ending 16th December were'.— Factcry, UL's to 1188 ; fancy, l'JCs to 1245 ; dairy, 9(is to 100 a.

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