The Porirua Volunteers have challenged any ten men of the City Volunteers to a rifle contest on their range at Tawa Flat. The ranges to be fired at will be those selected by the accepting company, who will have all their work cut out for them, if w r e may judge of the number of men from the Porirua district who have qualified as representatives at the Colonial prize firing. The contest is one that should be the forerunner of many other matches of so interesting a nature.
The following fuller account of the out,rage committed against Mr Russell’s family at Auckland appears in a telegram supplied to the “ Otago Daily Times “Mr Thomas Russell has been staying with his familv at Pah Farm, but last night remained in Auckland. At midnight some person knocked at the door of the farmhouse, and being refused admittance dis charged six shots from a revolver through the window. Mr Russell’s son had a narrow escape from being struck by one of the bullets.”
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 54, 3 February 1872, Page 12
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171Untitled New Zealand Mail, Issue 54, 3 February 1872, Page 12
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