WANGANUI ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 829, 30 May 1910, Page 3

WANGANUI ITEMS.

••u ♦ BOY MARKSMAN'S SUCCESS. AT A GUN CLUB'S MEETING. (By Telegraph—Spccial Correspondent.) Wanganui, Hay 28. The New Zealand Gun Club's championship was competed for in Wanganui yesterday by 24 shots all parts of the Dominion. The winner turned up in 'a sixteen-year-old lad, named Donald- Alien I'Vnscr, of Aororata, Canterbury, who scored 20 kills out of 21. Ho wins a 65-guinea gun, a gold medal valued at £25) and £35 in. cash. This is his first . attempt at championship honours, in fact ho only started competition shooting about 12 months ago. The lad's father, Mr. Duncan I'raser, who has had a ■ largo experience at gun meetings, paid a high tribute to the" excellence of the management of the local gathering, saying that it was the best-conducted meeting that ho had ever been present at.

The death is announced of an old Kiwitea settler, Mr. Fred. D. M'Beth, who died in Wangnmii yesterday evening. Deceased was one of the earliest Rangitikei settlers. A young man,' a recent arrival from South .Africa, was 'diarged at the Court this morning with the theft of two overcoats, and was sentenced to 30 days' hard labour. Accused who, it was alleged, is a member of a certain fraternity who travel about the country attending race meetings, asked Mr. Kerr, S.M., to commit him to prison in another town, as he would not .bo able to get work in Wanganui when ho came out again. His Worship declined, remarking that he had heard this sort of request before, and it was really a more excuse to obtain a free train ride. A meeting of the local Labour party last night decided to send best wishes to the Auckland Labour party in connection with the coming by-eleatioii; The meeting also decided to adopt the platform of the New Zealand Federation of Labour.