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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 25, 29 January 1879, Page 2

We take (he following from the Auckland He a i,t : — ln view of the approaching rifle ami carbine matches of the New Z«alaud Kifie Association, to be held in Nelson, which will be conducted on conditions auti sul.j ct to regulations similar to thuse which used to govern the Colonial prize-firing, the members of the association determined to select the men to represent tluiu by two competitive matches. It is intended, should sufficient funda be procured, to send three representatives of the rifle branch of the Volunteer service and two of the carbine branch to represent Auckland, and the high est scorers in the two matches will be of course selected, but any other member of the I Association who chooses can proceed to Nelbou ul hi* own expense, and will he entitled to compete in any or all of the matches, and it is piobable that a team of ten or twelve may be on the ground as Auckland representatives. Iv a single issue of the Duuedin Evening Star, of Jan. 7th, we notice several sweeps advertised on a local race, the Duuedin Cup, to the amount of £8750. These are openly advertised, one for £4000, one for £3000, one for £1000, one for £500, and one for £250, each with conditions and place of address specified.

An elderly man named "W. 11. Parnell was locked up last night by Constable McDonald, for sticking an ordinary dinner fork into his wife'a no3e. The fork was driven into the poor woman's face as far as brnte strength could force it. Drs Keatevcn and Harding were at ouce called in to her assistance; and chloroform hud to be administered before they could attend to the wound. — N.Z. Times. tuder the heading ' { The down-trodden serfs of New Zealand the Wanganui Chroni Ie writes-.— A settler on the No 2 Line had a McCoruiick in bis fields, nnd a munber of havvestiug hands engaged all ready to commence reaping operations, on Saturday last, when the weary sons of toil declined to doff their coats uuless they were guaranteed to be reuumerated at the rate of twelre ahllliujs per diem. Of the malcontents, one soft-hearted fellow seemed inclined to put a more moderate valuation upon his scrvicps, but his "chums" wouldn't, hear Gf if, carried him bodily off the ground, packed him into the railway train, and all together came off to town. Poor fellows ! It is hard that the landed proprietors should grind them down so unraerc fully. Perhaps the Goveni'iipnt will think of their case when tho "Equality of Sacrifice" Bill is being prepared. The sum collected on dog licenses in San Francisco last year, amounted to £7800.