NEW ZEALAND BISLEY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LX, Issue LX, 1 November 1910, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND BISLEY.

INCREASE IN PRIZE MONEY. BY TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, Oct. 31. The programme for the next New Zealand Bisley, drawn up by Colonel Collins, 1.5.0., and executive officer in the Dominion of the Rifle Association, has been approved by the Council. Prizes in the championship series have been increased by £1223. Figure targets are being introduced in place of bull's-eyes at 500 and 600 yards. They will be of the same dimensions' and have the same divisions as the ordinary second-class targets, and will be colored, the upper half light grey and the lower half green, having centrally on it a 'head and shoulders" figure colored in khaki, 18 by 21 inches. Consequent on the new arrangements made in connection with catering, it has been decided that a catering fee of 15s per man be charged, and must be paid at time of entry. Each competitor will receive a ticket which will entitle him to ten meals in the dining-room and ten 'light meals at the tea and coffee pavilion. With the ample accommodation available, Colonel Collins is proposing a new system of squadding. There will be fotir men to a squad, and 25 squads to a section, lettered from "A" onwards. Match barrels are prohibited. They were only allowed last year on account of many Australian competitors being so armed, and as an inducement for them to come. The aperture back sight will be allowed jjs before. The competitor will have the option of converting a sighting shot into a counting shot. The usual concessions in steamer fares have been arranged and free railway passes from Trentham and back will be issued.

A remarkable case of phenomenal physical development in the • five-year-old daughter of Mr Crellin, of Boolarra, is at present creating considerable interest among the medical profession in Melbourne (says the "Argus"). The child is 5 years- and 9 months old, and turns the scale at 1121b (Bst). At birth she was a frail little mite, much under the average weight, and for months made such little progress that her life was despaired of. From the time she was twelve months old, however, she grew rapidly, and latterly has been adding weight at such an alarming specd — nearly 21b a week — that her parents became frightened, and her removal to the -Children's Hospital, where she is new an inmate, was decided on. Her abnormal condition is attributed by the medical men to one of two things — either the absence of the thyroid gland or the absence of the pituitary body at the base of the brain. These two bodies have certain functions to perform in the assimilation of nourishment and the formation of fat, and altogether regulate the state of nut; I ! Lion.