NO. 3 COMPANY'S RIFLE MATCH.

Auckland Star, Volume X, Issue 3010, 10 December 1879, Page 3

NO. 3 COMPANY'S RIFLE MATCH.

Thb second firing of the two teams in the No. 3 Company took place this morning, resulting iv a tie on the two matches. The following ia the first score : — Matches. 200 '300 100 Tl. Last Tl. let Team. yds. yds. yds. M'teh. Rergt. Hay.. .. 16 19 9.. 44 —43 ..87 Corporal Grey .. — — — 26 .. 26 Vol. A. Stretton.. 15 0 4 .. 28 —28 .. 56 Vol. Nicholson ..16 12 5..33—42 .. 75 Cor. Hartlett ..11 6 7.. 24 — 20.. 44 Vol. K. Stretton.. 17 8 10 .. 35 —27.. 62 Vol. C. James ..12 5 2.. 19 .. 19 Vol. Culpan .. — — —.. 14 .. 14 Vol. Moore.. .. - - -.. 13 .. 13 Per«t. Soall .. — — —.. 29 .. 29 VoLßoyd .. .. 16 14 7 .'. 37 ~37 ' Si

Ac the meeting of the Mount Eden Road Board, last night several contracts were authorised with a view to providing employment for labouring men, who are corn--plaining of a lack of work. " Who is John Duon, the Zulu chief?" asks a writer in the "World," "I hear many people ask. John Dunn is the son of a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, who was killed by an elephant iv Natal many years ago. John married a half-caste woman ; but when he settled in Zululand most of the chiefs, by way of making him thoroughly at home, sent daughters as offerings—gifts he could not well refuse. He has, for an Englishman, therefore, rather an unusual number of wives; there are twenty Zulu houris in his harem, besides the half-caste, and his family already consists of ninety little Dunns. His profession for many years past has been that of ,' gunr running,' in other words that of smuggling firearms across the frontier into Zululand, an operation he long conducted with noted success, thereby laying the foundation of his wealth. As the great Sir Garnet has decreed that gun-running snail cease, he has set a thief to catch a thief, and Dunn, no doubt, will prevent everybody he can from indulging in the profitable tiade. She sang soprano sweetly— Her voice was like a lyre ; But on (Sunday she ate onions. And thus busted up the choir.