SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 12766, 20 March 1906, Page 6

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

WAIHOLA REGATTA. The array of cups and trophies at present on view in Ma-ers W. and R. Sootfs window should be of great interest to the sporting public as well as to rowing men. Most of the cups axe perpetual cbaJlengQ cups, but the rivalry for custody is very keen, and there is no doubt the Otago Rowing Association owe much of the keenness with which tlmir various events are competed to the possession of these handsome trophies. The Healey Challenge Cup will be again competed for at the regatta, on. tho 23rd inst., and the Senior Four Race, to which this cup is allotted, is looked on as the blue ribbon of Otago rowing. The premiership shield points are up to tho present very close, the 0-R-O. being but 8 points ahead of the Quern’s Drive Club, with the D.A.B.C. a. good thud. Messrs Glenn and Harper are passengers for Neve Zealand from Sydney by the Mocmki. They were given a send-off by the New South Wales Rugby Union.

Palmerston Hospital Roald have approved the scheme for training young Maori women as hospital nurses. The trustees of the Carnegie Hero Fund have awarded Captain Gusto, who rescued the passengers of the Clwrokee, a gold medal. £3OO to pay off a. mortgage, and, £I,OOO in trust for lire education of his son. Each member of the crew was awarded a silver medal and £ICO. Pioneer newspaper making is the interesting theme of an article in a recent iseno of the Kansas (U.S.) ‘City Journal.’ Three ream afo Mr E. S. Bronson (part propraetor and editor of the Oklahoma ‘Tribune*) bought an outfit, secured six printers from Kansas and Olda.hama cities, and in April set out for what was to Ire the site of the future city of Thomas. They arrived there at night, and with only the heavens for a canopy and not a sign of an enclosure, they issued next afternoon the first newspaper ever seen in that region. The settlers on the town sites were just coming' in. and naturally the establishment of tire embryo city gave the' newcomers opportunities which they promptly seized. So they decided on a daily, and printed it for eight days. But , the pioneers of th© Thomas i ‘Tribune’ bad their troubles. While they were getting out their paper the carpenters were building the office around them, and soon they were completely housed. For instance, one of the inconveniences they had to suffer, w<ta the weather. One night a terrific rainfall happened. The roof of the printing establishment wasn’t particularly good, and it let in the water in generous quantities. This necessitated the pioneew taking the coals off their backs and spread, ing them over the machinery to preserve i( from the downpour. But now; at -the ag< of three years, the ‘ Tribune ’ is the.leadinjj organ or the flourishing city of Thomas, and is in every way indicative ,of a i flourishing comsumity.. .