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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 156, 3 July 1888, Page 8

The Waihora last week shipped 600 tons 8f produce at Oamaru for Sydney.

The students of the University are highly i) Indignant at the assertion mada a short ' iMme" back that one of their number had ifaken a translation of Horace from the Tree Library. Some of them instituted tl emselves private detectives, with the re-ult that a boy (probably from the Grammt.v School, as they are also doing the Odes) hadoscd theibook, and in order to get at it easil when he wanted it again, he pub it \in ir a different place, where another <3n r i*aar Schoolboy found it, and returned It to "s proper place. The book never left ithe l'-Saoe at all, and thus the 'Varsity fellow<= -'have been unjustly maligned. The Victoria Rifles assembled at the rifle ranee hit Saturday to fire the final stage for Ca tain Skinner's medal. The firing \«s under the supervision of Lieut. Somere. Sergt. Fairs, who had a lead of ?• points from the previous competitions, succeeded in winning the mecUl after a cio_.e contest with Vol. Rout ' by 5 points. The following are the aggregates of the members who fired in the fail stage :-Sergb. Fairs,l79 ; Vol. Rout, 1?? : Vol. Watson, 161; Corp. Skinner, 145. A football match will be played tomorrow between the Combined Butchers and the Employees of the New Zealand JVozen Meat and Storage Company at Potter's Paddock. Brakes will leave the British Hotel with players at 1.45 p.m. Players :—Butchers (colour, blue) : Stevenson (captain), Garrett, Rout M. Bnggs, "W. Briggs. Tracey, Shove, Holt, Stewart, Buinber, Reynolds, Ryan, Heron, Waddell, Harkms. Emergencies: Bratne, Ryan, Rout, R. S. Briggs. Freezing Company {colours, blue and black): Holmes, MoGuineas, Braund, Baker, Thomas, T. ■Poherty, Avery, Evans, Burton, W. f.oherly, Neil, Pitkethley, * Cox, |Vjley '