CADET GENERAL PRIZE FIRING.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1271, 12 March 1872, Page 2

CADET GENERAL PRIZE FIRING.

The Rifle Volunteer Cadets—or rather those of them who are under 14 years of age—assembled at the Rifle Club range yesterday afternoon, for the parpose of competing for the first set of Colonial Government prizes. We append the scores made : FIRST SET. For Cadets under 14 years of age; ranges, 100 and 150 yards, 5 shots at each ; 20 prizes, value £25. No Cadet firing in this set will be qualified to fire in the 3rd Set unless he has obtained a minimum score of 20 points. 100 150 T .. yards yards 10tal Ellison. ... ... ... 17 Corry 15 Ross 16 Duncan, F. 12 GolL-iii ... 13 M'Kain ... 15 Tylee/J . ... 3 Tylee, H 10 Williams 15 Chambers, B 8 Burton ... 11 Miller. D 11 Yates.'W 9 Chambers, M. ... ' ... 7 Garry 5—7 Badley 4 Nesbitt 8 —2 Yates, C 5 —2 Newton, W 7 0 Newton, E 7—o—7 Green 22 4 Weber 4—o—4 Badley 2 0 —2 Brown 2—o—2 —lt will be seen that there were 25 competitors in all, 9 of whom have qualified themselves to compete in the 3rd set. The firing for the second set was to commence at 4 p.m. to-day.

It is stated that quite recently purchases of wool on account of American houses have been made in Canterbury and Otago to the extent of £50,000. At a recent meeting of the committee of the Canterbury Flax Association, it was stated that a firm had executed an order for a Liverpool house of ten tons of double-stripped flax at .£45 per ton. There are 8 denominational schools in Christchurch attended, according to the Lyttelton Times, by about 600 children. Mr F. A. Whitaker has retired from the Presidency of the Auckland Mechanics' Institute, with which he had been connected for 30 years. The Evening Post says :—Not many days ago we dre'v attention to the ominous silence of the Ministerial Pi-ess in regard to Mr Vogel's proceedings in Australia, and we pointed out how signally he must have failed, when his worshippers could not find anything in those proceedings to crow about. The Nelson Colonist has been the first of the Ministerial journals to acknowledge the facts of the case, and to en deavor to gloss the defeat over as much as possible. The Colonist confesses knowledge of the fact that New South Wales has declined to enter into any arrangement with New Zealand in the matter of the San Francisco mail service, and admits ihat theie is little reason to believe that Victoria will prove more obliging. In that case, it admits that the " mission of the Colonial treasurer will be fruitless so far as it concerns the main, if not the sole object of his visit." This is a mild way of stating the plain fact that Mr Vogel has been most thoroughly snubbed in New South Wales, and that another snubbing awaits him in Victoria. The reports of the increase of smallpox in New York begin to excite alarm. The cases increased within a week from 62 to 82, and the disease ?eems to be confined to no one section. Vaccination is rapidly progressing, but among the low classes of the Germans, who object to vaccination, the contagion is making the most marked ravages. The fastest parage on record from Liverpool to New York has been accomplished by the Inman Company's Royal Mail steamer City of Brussels, Captain Kennedy, which left the Mersey on the evening of Thursday, the 9th November, and arrived at New York on Saturday morning, 17th, at about eight o'clock, having made the run in eight davs and three hours.

The number of immigrants who left Liverpool in the month of January exceeded that of December by 1 ; 150^