GENERAL GOVERNMENT PRIZE FIRING.
o The following are the scores made today by the No. 1 Company, City Rifles, in the firing for the selection of representatives to compete for the Colonial prizes.
We are informed that the Perseverance Mining Company has received advice in a letter dated the Ilth instant, from Langland's Foundry Company, Melbourne, who contracted to supply the whole of the machinery, erect it on the Company's ground, and put it into complete working order, that the machinery will most probably leave Melbourne at the end of this month. Ie may therefore be expected to arrive in Nelson early next month; and from the works now going on on the Company's ground, in the way of foundations, &c, and getting out crushing stuff, which has been found in quantity and quality fully equal to the first expectations of the company, we hope for an early and satisfactory report for the shareholders. We understand that gold has been discovered in quartz, on a purchased island near D'Urville's Island, the proprietor and a party of practical quartz-miners, representing a company formed at Wellington, are passengers on board the Phoebe, and intend proceeding to the island to commence operations. The quartz is stated to be of a payable character. Liquor Traffic. — A return lately laid before the House of Commons showed that the quantity of spirits consumed in Great Britain and Ireland — bo far as it can be estimated from the customs returns — during the year 1868 was 29,407,460 gallons, or less than bnegallon per head of the populatioo. The quantity consumed in New Zealand during the same year was, as above shown by tbe customs returns, 552,910 gallons, or rather more than 2£ gallons per head of the European population.
400 yds. 500 yds. 600 yds. Total. Sergeant Catley 20 18 16 54 Private Moore 17 15 13 45 Sergeant Gully 13 15 14 42 Private Black 12 16 6 34 Corporal Elliott 9 12 11 32 Sergeant Drew 10 10 11 31 Private Martin 13 4 5 22 (Artillery.) Gunner Barnett 16 8 13 37
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 46, 24 February 1870, Page 2
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347GENERAL GOVERNMENT PRIZE FIRING. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 46, 24 February 1870, Page 2
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