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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 23, 31 March 1866, Page 3

Firing- for the Government Phizes. ' — The firing for the prizes to be given by the General Government, took place on Thursday, the day was fine, but a strong northwest wind was blowing which interfered with the firing. There were 5 prizes, £100, £75, £50, £30, £20. The order at the conclusion was as follows : — Daniel Christie, Otago R.V. . . .39 Wm. Taylor, Dunedin R.V. ... 37 Thomas Benton, Featherston R.V. . . 35 Captain A. Kennedy, Napier . . 34 Daniel Kitchen, Marlborough Rangers . 31 Captain Clarke, Taranaki R.V. . . .31 William Brighton, Auckland Militia . . 30 Joseph Tunuiclifi e, Nelson R.V. . . 25 I Hugh Greer, Porirua R.V. ... 23 ■ Lieutenant Cook, Canterbury R.V. . . 28 Lieutenant McGuinness, Taranaki R.V. . 22 Thomas Stewart, Auckland R. V. . .IS Sergt. R. Wright, Canterbury R.V. . . 18 James Signal, Wanganui R.V. . . 17 James Rutherford, Nelson R.V. ... 14 John Mason, Hutt R.V. . -*. . .12 John Gibbon, 4th Waikato M. ... 8 William Tew, 3rd Waikato M. . . .8 A Frighpul Disease. — At Wegeleben a little town of 2,000 inhabitants in Germany ; the deaths by trictrines have now reached the terrible number of 04, of the 250 persons taken ill, some more it is feared will not survive many days. It appears that the trictrines came all of one swiue, and that its flesh had been mixed with that of other animals for sausages, the sufferings of the sick were described as horrible. The first symptom of the malady is a sort of rheumatic pain, which the patients say is speedily succeeded by a sensation, as though they were being gnawed by vermin, and eaten up alive. The patients retain their consciousness to the last ; and the instances are frequent, when they have implored the physician to shorten their sufferings, and destroy them by poison. — English Paper.". New Motive Power. — Mr. I. W. Main, plumber of Deniliquin, a man of superior attainments in mechanics and hydraulics, has just succeeded in discovering a system of raising water from rivers and wells without the aid of machinery. We have seen a small model at work, which raises the water many inches above its level in the small case, which conceals the model. Mr. Main proposes by means of his discovery, to do away with all pumps, and such like machinery in raising water. — Pastoral Times, March 10. Agricultural Trade Unions. — Farmers throughout England will note with lively apprehension, that the idea of trade unions has at last extended to the agricultural population. The ploughmen of Mid Lothian, have formed a "Farm Servants Protection Society," intending to embrace all the 1 laborers of Scotland, and to produce a " better relation " between them and their employers ; such a combination was inevitable, and it was commenced by the only laborers who have as yet received a decent education. — English Papers.