RIFLE COMPETITION.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 21, 25 January 1875, Page 2

RIFLE COMPETITION.

The first competition for the Citv Kifle Company's Champion medal for 1875 took p'aca >his morning at the Maitai Butts, when it was won by Private Hood. The ranges were 400, 500, and 600 yards; target 6x6 f< ct; position any. Five ehota at each range The followiog are the scores: —

Tiie Wellington correspondent ol the Lyttelton Times writes : — *• The Corporation accounts for the past year have just been published, and they dia-

doss a most unhealthy condition of affaira. The city is absolutely bankrupt, and^ during the last year alone exceeded its income by between three aud four thousand pounda. Ii has now an overdraft unsanctioned by law amounting to upwards of £3000. Altogether there hns been gross mismanagement, and our new Mayor, M> Moorhouse, will have a good deal to io to get things right again. He haa however, begun vtM-y well, and ehowi that he will not allow Council'ors tonaisbebave in the way which has given the Wellington City Council such an unenviable notoriety throughout tbe colony." The Riverton (Otfgo) paper, in a recent issue was unforunale enough to misprint an advertisement of a birth, which drew from the father, a medico and well-known resident in the district, the quaint communication, which explains the tature of the mißtoke : — " You've turaed my boy into a girl. I will give you best. I thought I knew my business pretty fairly, but that's a wrinkle I was not up to. For I the sake of its mother and sorrowing relatives, please to retransmogrify the child and allow it to asume its normal gender." Tiie Auv.klatxd &*a*fe "NTftpifln «brreßpoadetit telegraphs tbe following %— George Irvine, eldest son of the Rev. Darcy Irvine, bead-master of the Napier Grammar-school, ineffectually cut his throat yesterday afternoon. The supposed cause 18 temporary insanity through over study. He- was one of the undermasters of the school, and studying hard for Uuiversity honours to enter the Church. Hopes are entertained of his recovery. Greet sympathy is felt for his family.

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