The preliminary firing for company representatives (3) for the Napier Hi He Volunteers has terminated in favor of Lieut. Close, Corporal Renouf, and Sei'gt. Blake, whose total scores were, respectively, 122, 121, and 111, We observe from our telegrams that the p.s. Nevada, with the outward mails for Europe, America, <fec, hy the Ccilifornian route, will not leave Auckland until the 3rd January. The preliminary firing for company representatives (3) for the Artillery Volunteers commenced, this morning The ranges fired were 200, 300, 400, and 500 yards—standing at the first range, kneeling at the second, and any position at the other two ; 5 shots at each range. The following were the three highest scores made :—Gunner Wallace, 57 points; Corporal Garner, 56; and Gunner Gilberd, 27.
We learn that class-firing on the part of rhe liifle Volunteer l * will commence at the Tutaekuri range on the morning of Thursday next (Boxing Pay.) The Wanganni Chronicle, we ob serve, is now published daily.
A Victorian telegram £>ives the inforraatiou that "a Larrikin Club has been established at Coiling wood."' One's natural impression on reading this would be that the disturbers of society tbeie had entered into a combination for mutual support and assistance ; hut such is not the case. The object of lhe " Larrikin Club " is said to be " the reformation ofstieet boys." May success attend their efforts*.
From Tasmania it i* satisfactory to hear that there are cheering indications on all hands of a bountiful harvest. " Atticus," writing to tin? Melbourne Leader, says:—" It is a fine thing to be a Minister of the Crown and to have a large department to administer. Office is becoming more and more attractive evevy year. There was a time when the stern virtue of a Heaies and a Verdon objected to Ireland's modest Hansom cab, and when these worthies remorselessly cut down the claim of their Attorney-General to travelling expenses between St. Kilda and Collinsstreet. 1 wonder what* they would say to special trains, and all the other et ceteras of the < ins ' of 1872." We wonder what "Attieus" would say if he resided in New Zealand.
The average weekly export of timber from Hokitika is no«- 100,000 feet.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1516, 24 December 1872, Page 2
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