Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1872.
Mails for Australia and the tlnited Kingdom close at. the BlufT at 10 a.m. on Saturday. Although the, two vessels are not by any means fairly matched, it £$ probable that a trial of speed is at this moment taking plaoe between the mail steamer Nebraska and the s.s. Rangatira, both of which left Port Ahuriri this afternoon within 15 ve minutes,of each other, bound for Wellington. Before she had rounded Ahuriri Bluff, it was observed that the Rangatira was spreading her canvas to the favoring breeze, Capt. Renner being evidently bent ou achieving a victory, if possible, over the Yankee Leviathan.
The Hawke's Bay portion of ihe English mail via San Francisco came to hand this morning, per Nebraska, from Auckland. Extracts from the papers appear elsewhere. J. D. Ormond, Esq., was a passenger by the Nebraska for Welling ion this afternoon.
The competition for the Napier Rifle Volunteer challenge belt took place on the beach range yesterday and this mornings. The winner proved to be Corporal Renouf, who made the good score of 59 points out of a possible 80, being nearly average centres. It will be observed frera the appended list of competitors with their respective scores that Corporals Sellars and Morrison n ere not far behind the winner. The following are the scores :
There were no cases in the Resident Magistrate’s Court this moi ning.
200 400 500 600 Total yards. yards. yards. yards. Renonf .03334 33333 33342 42343 — 59 Sellars, G. J.. .23333 43423 24223 23333 — 57 Morrison .34334 43333 44440 .30020 — 54 Chicken, Jno..33442 23330 32342 23203 — 44 Chicken, Jos...03333 32330 44223 00202 — 40 Charlton .43434 42042 33204 00000 — 40 Close ..34233 03332 33303 00020 — 40 Robinson .33433 33402 00003 22030 — 88 Moore .30043 03232 33220 00300 — 33 Wishart ..03042 03033 30000 03004 — 28 Connor ,.24330 23300 00000 03000 — 23 Elmes .04000 04433 20000 00000 — 20 Murphy .33323 00003 Retired. — 17
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1432, 19 September 1872, Page 2
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