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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1815, 23 July 1906, Page 3

In the competition for Government prize medals Privato-A. Tj. Humphries, of the Taranaki Rifle*, won a gold medal for tbe best shot in tbe North Island, Sergeant H. E Salmon Ohinrmuri It fle?, coming ntx‘. Privates Stafford, Wilson, and Clark, also of Ohimmuri, gained a silver medal allotted to tbe best shot in land district, and Corporal F. Symouds, Hastings It lies, won a similar medal for Wi 1 ioeton district. In the Sou’.h Island Color S rgpant C. A Halfleld, Blenheirn, won the gold medal ; Sergeant M«j ir F Barnett, of Takaka, Nelson, was second. Tbe district rneda's wero won by Corporal O Coir, Nelson, Crl .r Srrgoant Sandfrrd, Canterbury, an! Color- fc>rrgeant Sear!, Otago.

At Blenheim on Saturday Archrb&'d McNeill, who was arrested at Waimatoa few days ago, after corpirg from custody at Wellington, was charged with obtaining £2O from an Awatero family oi s. tilers by representing himself aa a rich cousin who bad recently sold a cattle ranch in A gentine and was now worth £IO,OOO- Accused had iu reality just boon discharged from tho neighboring dungaree prison esmp. The family, a most respectablo one, wore deceived by tbe plausible story, and actually permitted one of the daughters to proceed to Wellington with the pseudo cousin. Ho was convioted, and sentenced to twelve months' bard labor. Maori outlaws ware fairly common

once, but latterly the industry hasn’t thriven. Ono bold brown hero who j escaped arrest for something very ordinary years ago, has evaded the blue coats ever since, and lives a lonesome life in the fastnesses of Poverty Bay. He makes periodical raids on the settlers’ sheep and cattle, and levies on his fellow-browns with a gun, for clothes, tobacco and sundries. The gentleman’s hair gets wild and woolly at times, after the fashion of the Patriarchs of old, and, a 3 Ire* la fastidious concerning his porsonal appearance, he drops into a camp overy few months, and orders a scared fellowcountryman to trim his locks. He keops his gun between his knoes during shearing. When it becamo known that he had happened along as usual, t’other day, a posse of police and settlers started out on a bush scouring expedition, and it was still out when this was written.—Bulletin,