This Day.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 59, 8 March 1873, Page 2

This Day.

The firing at the 800 yards range com-; menced this morning and has occupied the whole day. The range nol b ! eing:ob-! tainablein the paddockinwhichthe previous firing took place,. tlie competitors • hadi to fire from the other side of the hedge, where! two lorries were : placed for. the ] purpose. The highest ' scores .made 7 wier^: jOjates, Wellington, 20,;, Guy, Nelson,; 19 j Board- j maD, Auckland, 17 ; -Partington, Thames, 16; Forsyth; Westland, 15; Wales, Otago, 14; Leigh, Thames, 14; Stone, Thames, 12 ; Hoskin, ■Thames; .12.;.* ;:< ..;,■.<„ ;. ? , „- % Monday will be; devoted to the Rapidity and Running. Matches.

T Lyell tpwnshi[)^^Mr: Andrew^Tod, ; is. re- "^ corded ih^tnenp^ paper. 1 7Mr. Tod, wß^^wttsr^.n^v'o' of Perthshire, Scotland, was one of the earliest settleTß\ in this district/ : abd in partnership with" Mr Smith succededih establishing a large t and; successful business. ,-, The diseased hsis '} been 1 ailing for some* time past, but until Within a, day. or, sp. of his death, • a serious ; rt result was not anticipated; r His burial i V.took Yplace ' pn\ Wednesday afternoon. 7-Th'e remains 1 were ; followed to A. their 5 last resting-place. by the warden of the district, :rß?^majority> : :oiF: the minersr and business ■ people, and a r large number of personal 'friends;' in all about 300,; many of whom came- from a , considerable, distance. — G.B. ArgusJ—M&rch 4. j The Stjpebintendent of Nelson, Mr. Oswald Curtis, ds now oh his' way from Greymouth to Reefton, he is " performing " the journey in a " trap " accompanied 'tjy <^ Thp7 Duke " asi driver and Mr. Catley, as Receiver of Land Revenue and tourißt. His Honor crossed, the Arnold 'bridge yesterday, and "hanselled" <Garven's Bridge Hotel — an ornamental, com- - mbdibus, and comfortable building (which observations are hot paid for as an adver7tjianient.)^ffisHonoi;ipr^peededtp Campto wni and thence: to the Ahaura; and, if he did notf distinguish;, the difference detween Westland and Nelson, .between road^ arid ,'' So } roads, and between the presence and absence of encouraged enter 7 prise, he is still Mr . ' Oswald C urtis^ Superintendent of Nelson— nothing more; To other men the differences are so dis-i tinguishable as to 7 make the comparisioq more than ordinarily odious. G. B. Argus. March.3. ; . .;-v. ■ ...i. : i-,'3teß following is from the New Zealand Herald:—-" Heretofore the West Coast of the Middle -Island has been too little understood or appreciated; Those Who are conversant with the ppuntry can speak to two important facts. The one is, that the seaboard from Okarito south to 'Buller north is almost an unbroken field of coal beds; the other is, that almost ; every acre of the ground is more or less auriferous. Gold lying upon coal, ahd enormus quantities of fine gold washed up with titaniferous sand at every return of the tide along .2oo, miles, of coast, cannot but result in great things. It is not perhaps saying too much, that when the bar harbors of the entrance to these settlements can be, safely navigated by suitable steamers,7and when railways run parellal with the beach lines, that Westland will rank in before most other parts of the Colony." ""' : J : ;