LAND AND WATER.
In rejjly to a letter &snt at the wish of th< North Otago Acclimatisation Society re cost ol importing swallows into the district, the Australian authorities have written stating that tScre wa« conquerable risk iv g< tting the birds ovtr alive, in ccn^equenoc of the trouble of fe>diog them, aud tho attempt would almost certainly prove a failure. Tho Canterbury Amateur Athletic Club's Cros3 Country Steeplechase (four miles) wa« won by W. J. Pcvcy (240 yds). A Melbourne cable state* that Blake won tho TeJ-mile Cross-country Championship of the colony.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2170, 26 September 1895, Page 28
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93LAND AND WATER. Otago Witness, Issue 2170, 26 September 1895, Page 28
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