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LPBB UNITS!) PRESS ASSOCIATION. DUNEDIIT, August 10. The 12 hoars' walking match between Hancock and Scott took place to-day. Scott always led by a pace or two; At 10.20 a.m. Soott put on a spurt, but Hancock responded 10 minute* afterwards, bat he was hosted for bin stjle of walking Sc«tt erentually won the match bj a yard, baring covered 72 miles four laps. A glove fight between Raymond (Pettengell's trainer) and Daris, a local ra?n, turned »ut a fiasco. Raymond would not tvrn out at first, and claimed to be sick. When he did it was sees, he kaevt rery little of boxing, but as he was bigger than Davis he stood fire rounds. No judges were present, and each claimed to hare won. - Nslboh, This Day. At the inquest on the body of a man named Sparks, found in a ditch on the Waimea Road it appeared he had broken his neck by a fall.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 26, 11 August 1885, Page 2
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