TRIFLE MATCH.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 255, 23 October 1873, Page 2

TRIFLE MATCH.

We are indebted to Mr Wi; 7R7 Elder, of Taranaki, for theT following scores made by the Tarauaki' men in the late;* rifle match with Nelsoo. Mr Elder, together with Mr Newman, formerly of_ Nelson, wateffed the shooting on behalf' of Jhe Nelson team. :

Grand Total 487 The total number of points made by the Nekon men was 437. For remaind, rof news see fourth page.

Thirty-nine applications were received . from Australia for the vacancies ;of mas; , terahips in the Auckland Grammar School;/ Aboat as many were received from thd various provinces of this colony. 7 The special reporter of the Dunedi* Star has not formed a very flatterinl opinion of one of the . aspirants to thl Superintendency of Nelson. In eom| Parliamentary sketches written from Wellington, he says : — "In classifying the * members according to their Provinces, I think Canterbury shows up best. There are less roughs among them. Taking the _ Provinces from the North downwards, who can we find up to par representing Auckland besides Vogel, Wood, Gillies, Sheehan, O'Rorke, and Swanson — the remainder possessing au influence that may be called unappreciable — six out of sixteen? There is one man from Taranaki—l Atkinson; who hears* of the other two 7 Hawke's Bay is fortunate; it has Ormond, M'Lean, and Karaitiana. Wellington fe fortunate, having Fox, Fitzherbert, Bunnf , Johnston, and Pearce — five out of eigbjt. Nelson has Curtis; well, he is the smallest man in the House and the smallest Superintendent in the Colony. Macandrfew could put him under his arm, and whlk away with him without inconvenience/as Otago could with his Province. THere are a few gentlemanly well-behaved jnen belonging to the Province in the Hoi se ; but, as a rnle, they toil not, neither do they spin—leaving all tbe talking ne arly to the ' Bnller Lion,' the voluble — member for the South-West Nelson G aidfields. I think after Shepherd he ie the greatest nuisance in the House. Ee is one of the pachydermatous genus. E e is sarcasm proof; nothing daunts bim_ he has a brow of brass; unhallowed amb: tion enough for an able man; unscrupulous .ess enough for a courtier or a Russian ipy, and can talk against time or sense 1 nth any other representative of any 0 her goldmining constituency upon earth. iLll men have heard of sleepy Nelson. vlSi it be believed, he hopes to catch its in^" habitants in their lethargic state and get elected for the Superintendency of the Province ? Nelson deserves well of New Zealand. It was founded early; had to endure hard times; has not stooped to ask or receive charitable aid like other Provinces; has preserved a sturdy though quiet independence; has gardens full of mellow, luscious fruit, and households full of the fair daughters of Eve; it has the finest climate and scenery in the colony, and though at time* we may rail at its inertia, we certainly are not prepared to see it handed over to an O'Conor regime, while a man is to be found in ita midst." The San Francisco Bulletin says:— " There are more than ten thousand acres of land suitable for farming purposes in California, which may be bought at prices ranging from two dollars to fifteen dollars per acre." It is stated by the Warrnambool Examiner that a natural curiosity in the shape of a sheep, with hoofs like a horse, has been found amongst the stock on the station of Mr A. Mackenzie, Woollongong. The execution of a Japanese for murdering three is noticed by the Nagasaki Gazette, with the curious fact that he was j incited to the crimes by a dispute about a/ debt of 2$ ool.; while it cost him double/ that sum to buy the sword with which he/ committed them. { It is a fact worth noticing, says thd Tablet, that, while the Shah was being! ■ feted in Europe, scattering diamonds wherever he went, a poor priest (the Rev\ Father Arakelian) was travelling 'through Australia, collecting subscriptions for his starving subjects in Persia. An act of unprecedented liberality is recorded by the Times:— "Mr James Baird, of Auchmedden, the Scotch ironmaster, has paid over to a body of trustees, to be called the Baird Trust, the sum of £1,500,000, to be applied to religiouß purposes in connection with the Church of Scotland." y What is Fame?— "Mr Speaker," exclaimed a member of the Arkansas Legislature, "my colleague taunts me with a desire for fame. I scorn the imputation sir. Fame, sir! What is fame ? It is a i shaved pig with a greased tail, which slips/ through the hands of thousands, and then/ is accidentally caught by some luck? fellow that happens to hold on- to it. I let the greasy-tailed quadruped go by uL without an effort to clutch it, sir." T An Indianapolis woman lately gate birth to a child during her husbant's absence, and just before his return "tie neighbor's" borrowed two other babl s, and placed them in bed with the lit le stranger. When tbe father asked to *se the child, the coverlet was turned down an# although the he must have bean immensely surprised, he coolly turned to his wife and asked, " Did any get away "

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