LAND AND WATER.
A Wellington telegram slates that a routemarching competition was held on Thursday between squads of non-oommissioned officers from several of the local volunteer corps. The route was through the city to Newtown, thence to Kilbirnie, and home by way of Evanß Bay. The College Rifles accomplished the distance in lhr 59min lOsec, the Kilbirnie Rifles coming in about two minutes afterwards.
It is notified in the Gazette that no person shall take whitebait by the use of nets in p:,Jdocks which are formed by constructing groins from the banks of rivers and streams and making holes for the fish between the groins and banks. Any person committing a breach of this regulation shall be liable to a penalty of not less than £1 and not; exceeding £20.
The Hon. H. Scotland, M.L.C., who is about 76 years of age, was married last week to a young lady hailing from Cornwall (England). The marriage took place at the- registrar's office, Auckland.
A favourite mode of suicide among the African trib.es who dwell near Lake Nyassa is for a native to wade into the lake and calmly wait for a crocodile to open its mouth and swallow him.
Recently-published statistics show the relative proportions of attendances to the numbers in the different denominations in Melbourne. For the Church of England, 14-.67 per cent. ; Presbyterian Church, 43.19 per cent. ; Baptist Church, 45.48 per cent. ; Congregationalists, 59.45 per cent.;, and all the Methodists, 68 per cent. The Eev. Frederick Warner, secretary of the New Zealand Congregational Union, has just received a cable from Dr Bevan, of Melbourne, stating tljAt he very -willingly accepts the invitation sent to make a tour through New Zealand on behalf of Congregational Churches. Dr Bevan will spend the whole of next February in Duneclin, Christ"< church, Wellington, and Auckland.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union' invite contributions for the sale of work in aid of the Sailors' Rest and juvenile temperance! work, to be held in connection with the S.S* Exhibition in ghqw week.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2332, 10 November 1898, Page 40
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337LAND AND WATER. Otago Witness, Issue 2332, 10 November 1898, Page 40
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