RACING PREPARATIONS.

THE long sleep, which seems to envelop London’s motorboating enthusiasts during the winter, at last shows signs of being cast off. Suggestions for further complicating the racing rules have appeared, and discussions are taking place among those who do not race, upon the question of silencers and various other methods of restricting speed. It has even been reported that the time keeper’s house at the Welsh Harp has been painted on the side farthest from the wind.