A Squeak.— At the Pukarangi Hunt Club meet yesterday at Wynyard’s the horse Cocky broke his neck, and his rider had a narrow escape. He was riden by Thorpe the celebrated steeplechase rider.
The Wellington Footballers. —After beating the Auckland players, which the Wellington team of football players suc ceeded in doing, they leave to-day by the West Coast, playing at Nelson on the route. The Press Association agent at Auckland considers it of sufficient import ance to telegraph the fact that the players enjoyed themselves immensely, etc.
The Home Meat Trade.— .-The Austra lasian learns by telegram that the Sydney .Government intend to test three refriger ating cars—English, American, and Colonial—on the railways during the ensu ing summer. As arrangements are being make for killing meat for shipment at more than one point far inland on the railways of New South Wales, a safe method of transmitting frozen meat to the seaboard becomes an essential condi tion. In Victoria the only place at which it is at present proposed to kill meat for shipment is at the Saltwater River, so that refrigeration cars are not so imperatively required there.
