TO CORRESPONDENTS.
"J.C."—The longest running jurat) is that o£ John Howard, 29ft 7in. <!ono with 51b dumbbolls from 11 solid block of wood on May 3,1854. Without weights a balt'-caato Maori jumped 23ft 4in on Good Friday, 1G35, at Sydney, New South Wales. Malcolm \V. JTord, the American amateur, jumped without; weights 23ft 3:,' in. The tasiost 100 yards is sometime?. :.<;iyen as that of Ueortvo Sowartl, Oisec, but tho timo is not now reoof*uiuod as a record. 11. M. Johnson (lately dead) and Harry Betlmne ara credited with 9 J-Stli see in America, while l< rank He wilt has the slightly holtor record oC O.faeo made in Australia. Harris is not mentioned any where ay hold ing an especially good record.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 276, 22 November 1890, Page 2 (Supplement)
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