SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Patea Mail, 5 March 1881, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

RECEIVED LAST NIGHT. WELLINGTON GOSSIP. LARGE FAILURE. Wellington, Friday. Mr E. W. Mills, iron merchant, intends to file his schedule in consequence of failing to effect a partnership, and not being able to come to an arrangement with his creditors. The assets are £190,000, liabilities £135,000. WEST COAST RAILWAY. Wellington, Friday. The promoters of the West Coast Railway are canvassing' the city, and shares arc being taken up rapidly. RIFLE FIRING AT NELSON. {TelegramsJroni ow Correspondent .) Rifle Camp, Wednesday. Match 4. —Rifles. 400, 500, 600 yards. 7 shots at each range. Prize-takers are : Plall, Waimea, 73 ; Private Doidge, Stoke, 72 ; Burr, Wellington, 71 ; Paynter, Sergt. Doidge, Stoke, 70 ; A. Sutton, Blenheim, 69 ; Hutchinson, Dunedin, Rogers, Blenheim, 68 ; Thorburn, Stoke, Shaw, Wellington, McDonald, Mnrton, Rawlings, Nelson, Mathieson, Bruce, 67 ; Taylor, Auckland, Hunter, Waimea, Hitching, Patea, Howell, Taranaki, Foster, Wanganui, 66 ; Warde, Waimea, 65. Thursday.

Match 6. —200, 400, 500, and 600 yards. Seven rounds at each distance. Open only to Volunteer members of the Association, Snider rifles. Prize-takers : —Turner, Blenheim, 107 ; McLeod, Thames, 106; Hoskin, Taranaki, 103. Match 7.—200, 300, 400, and 500 yards. 7 shots at each distance. Open only to Volunteer members of the Association. Snider carbines. 19 prizes ; value, £6O. Prize-takers : —France, Wellington, 108 ; Armstrong, Thames, 103 ; McLean, Wanganui, 102. The following are the scores of the other Wanganui men : McLean, 93 ; Wisdom, 84 ; Sommerville, 82 ; J. Thurston, 82 ; Laird, 80 ; D. Thurston, 80 ; Perry, 80 ; Littlewood, 77. Friday.

For the Rifle Championship so far the following arc the highest aggregates : Hall, Nelson, 108 ; Paynter, Stoke, 106 ; Private Doidge, Stoke, 105 ; Howell, Taranaki, 105; Burr, Wellington, Sergt. Doidge, Stoke, Hoskin, Taranaki, A. Sutton, Blenheim, each 104 ; Rogers, Blenheim, Thorburn, Stoke, each 103 ; Hunter, Waimea, 102 ; Loveridge, Taranaki, Taylor, Auckland, Hutchison, Dunedin, McDonald, Marten, Dingle, Taranaki, each 101 ; Kitching, Patea, Rawlings and Waddell, Nelson, each 100. Foi the Carbine Championship, the following arc so far the highest aggregates :

—Armstrong’, Thames, 108 ; Cameron, Thames, 107 ; H. Dixon, Wellington, 106 ; Smith, NAson. Thomas, Thames, Gunner Thomson, Port Chalmers, 105 eacii ; Bennett and Ingle, Wellington, McLean, Perry, and Wisdom, Wanganui, 104 each ; F. France, Wellington, Thomson, Dunedin, 103 each. Friday Night. The scores for the Rifle Belt arc ; Paynter, 200 ; Iloskin, 108 : Turner, 105. For liie Carbine Belt the scores stand ; France, 202 ; Armstrong, 202 ; H. Dixon, 100. The last matches for both belts will be fired to-morrow.

A man named Robert M’Gibbon, while on the steeple of the new Free Church, Greenock, lost his footing and fell to the ground, a distance of 150 feet, and was killed instantaneously. His brother was killed some three weeks before by a fall from the same steeple. The first school for idiots was organised by Dr. Edward Seguin, who lately died in New York. There are now seventy-five similar institutions in civilised countries.

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