NOTABILIA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3480, 1 September 1882, Page 3

NOTABILIA.

The Clive Licensing Committee holds its quarterly meeting in the Town Hall, West Clive, afc noon to-msrrow.

The Tamumu Road Board meets at noon to-morrow, when ifc will levy a rate of 6d in the £1 on all ratable property in the district for the ensuing twelve months.

A meeting of the Petane Jockey Club will be held at 3 p.m. to-morrow at Villers' Hotel, Petane.

Mr Lyndon holds an auction sale of useful furniture and other goods at his mart tomorrow at 11 a.m.

Messrs Monteith and Co.'s produce sale will take place at the Horse Bazaar tomorrow afc 11.30 a.m., and the stock sale afc the same place afc 1.30 p.m. Full particulars in advertisement.

All subscription lists and contributions towards the Martin relief fund are requested to be forwarded as early as convenient to the acting secretary, at the Napier railway station, so that they may be published.

Mr M. R. Miller, agent for R. Goldsbrough and Co., Melbourne, publishes the rates of carriage, insurance, storage, &c, of wool from the several ports of New Zealand to Melbourne.

The Registrar of the Supreme Court declares the deeds of arrangement in the estates of C. E. Eriberg and P. H. Hickey to be completely executed.

A partner with a capital of not less than £500, to continue and extend a present lucrative business, is wanted.

lodized sarsaparilla, prepared only by W. E. "Woods, chemist, Napier and Hastings, is a compound for cleansing and purifying the blood.

A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted" column.

{For centinnntiyn of news see fourthpage.)

FREEZING OPERATIONS IN OTAGO

A practical start in freezing operations (says the Otago Daily Times) was made by the New Zealand Refrigerating Company at their work at Burnside on Tuesday last (Bth) in a rather unostentatious manner, the directors having made no arrangements to eecure the attendance of either the outside public or the shareholders. The directors present at the inauguration were Messrs A. C. Begg, John Roberts, Thomas Brydone, and W. C. Smith. Mr James Shand had the honor of supplying the first sheep to be frozen —viz., 150 crossbreds from his farm at West Tnieri, and of course they were in prime condition, the manager (Mr Forsyth) estimating their weight at an average of over 80lb each. The machinery was started at 11.30 a.m., and worked evenly from the first. -Althongh at the commencement the Company did not anticipate having to provide storage room for more than 4000 carcases, it was subsequently found that this •would be inadequate, and additional accommodation is being provided so as to enable 9000 carcases to be stored at a time. Fourteen men are employed at the works, and six butchers will be employed, it being anticipated that 300 sheep per day will be killed. It is intended to take sheep from the farms or runs of the shareholders, of whom there are 320, in preference to those of outsiders. The first shipments will be made by the steamer Marsala, which is expected to take 9000 carcases, and by (he ship by which 6500 carcases will be forwarded in December next. The directors are also in negotiation for a steamer, to arrive in November, capable of taking 9000 carcases. The offer made is at the rate of 2id pc , lb, but tho directors are asking 2§d, although the first offer was only The capital of the Company is £20,000, of which, one-half is called np.