COLONIAL PRIZE FIRING.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2208, 4 June 1870, Page 2

COLONIAL PRIZE FIRING.

A Kew Zealand Gazette of the 30th ulfc contains a very carefully completed analysis and comparative return of the preliminary firing for representatives, and the firing at Dunedin. From table one we learn that the total number of competitors for choice of re? prescntatives, was 3-50, of which number 238 were North Island, and 112 South Island men, and the number of representatives chosen was 42 ; 22 from the North and 20 from the South. Taranaki had 40 competitors ; Otago, with its three districts, 4S ; Canterbury, with three districts, only 20 ; Auckland city, with three districts, 18, but as a Province, nearly 00 ; and Wellington, as a Province, nearly 70. A s might be expected, Otaco stands first. The average of the second district was 40.05 points ; first district, 35.17 third district, 33 o1; NeDon 'stands second, with an average of 30 90 : ' anterhury, second district, next with 34 ‘SO; then Southland, 34.44; and next Westland with 31.72. The lowest average in the South was Marlborough, 27-23. In the North the highest average was Wairarapa, 31 'SO, and the lowest PoAerty Bay, 19' SO The total average of the North men was 23'86, and of the South, 33'75 ; the total number of points scored by the former being 5,679, and by the latter 3,775. The money 'prizes won at the colonial firing iyere distributed as follows ; —Otago won LI 13 (including L4O to the champion) ; Wellington, L3O; Nelson, L 27;. the Thames,. L 27 ; Canterbury, Lls ; Napier and Westland, L 7 each ; consequently the North only got L 64, while L 162 went to the South. The 22 competitors from the North only obtained 5 prizes, while the 20 representing the South secured 11. * For the district prizes there were 799 competitors in the North Island, .and 408 in the South the total Jscnres of the former being 10.011, or an average of 20'03, and of the latter 11,044, or an average of 27 07. In the North in 1869, there Were 1,089 competitors, whose average was 16’41; in 1868. 620 competitors whose average was 22-94; and in 1867, 703, whose average was 20 22. In the South, in 1869 there were 664 competitors, their average being 3262 ; in 1808, 499, with an average of 15,863 ; in 1867, 377, with an average of 31 39. The shouting throughout the colony was best in 1868, when there 1,119 competitors the average was 36-8.8; Ip 1867 the average of 1,079 ipen was 24.23 ; in 1869, whep there were 1,753 competitors, 32-55 ; and in 1870, when there were 1,207, the ayerage wasJ22"43,