INTERCOLONIAL. Adelaide Cup. Adelaide, May 5.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1380, 7 May 1881, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL. Adelaide Cup. Adelaide, May 5.

The race for the Adelaide Cup to-day was won by Totalisator.

The poor musician is obliged to live on a cheap scale. — Sommerville Journal. Oh note meal, eh ? A Sacramento invention.— W. P. Merrill, of Florin, Sacramento county, is the inventor of a novel device to prevent horses from running way. It consists of a metal square-headed or pronged loop, which is attached to the hind axle of the wagon or buggy near the hub, and pointing forward. When the driver desires to leave his team, he drops the lines over the loop, from which they cannot escape excopt by manual removal. Extending from the hub-band is a singb prong halfi arched, the end or point of which descends through the loop as the wheel revolves. If the horses start up, the prongpoint passes down into the loop as the wheel revolves, catches the reins on it — which are drawn back to its heel by the pressure — and as the wheel turns the reins wind up on the hub, stopping the horses or pulling their jaws off — one or the other. The instant the animals stop and yielding to the pull, back up, the reverse motion unwinds'the reins, the arch of the prong passes up through the loop, and the reins drop back into their original location.' If 'the team" backs up still more, the prong passes, with each revolution, through the loop wjthput freeing- the ■reins; as 'the arched pirt,;and 'not the point," strikes them., ,'The' invention was te'srodin' the street^ 'and' atttevcted mu^h