LAND AND WATER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2524, 30 July 1902, Page 50

LAND AND WATER.

A volunteer corps, to bo called the Poputunoa Rifle Corps, ha- been formed at Clinton. Mr W. AY. Mackie, the promoter, ha-r been appointed captain, and Mr G. H. Hammer lieutenant. To attend to preliminary, matters a committee has been se* t'-j- consisting of Messrs Mackie, R. Irvin, jun. r Hammer, Franci«, Young?on, M'Lean, and Andrews.

The Hawke's Bay Herald say? that Mr Alison, in charge of the Portland Inland lighthouse, lias been transferred to Moeraki. Another whale has been captured by the whalemen from the Whangamumu whaling station, making tho " catch " for the season so far 16. Another large shipment of ci! from, the station has arrived in Auckland, consisting of 120 casks. The Christchurch Mi'eoum has recehecl a valuable addition to its collection of New Zealand birds in the t-haoe of a red-iieekerf sandpiper, presented by Mr E. Stead. This bird is known in A<<ia and Australia, but has not previously been seen in this colony. At a. .vpeeial meeting of the Queen's. Drive Boating Club (Mr W. J. Wilson presiding) it was re-solved to hold an aquatic carnival! m November, ami a stumg sub-committee was fot up to give immediate effect to this resolution.

A tiavellcr on the Ea->t Coa>-t of tho North Island, who lecontly rode fiom Ti> Awditc to Gladstone-, counted 108 deer on tho To Awaite station, bc-idus foui email m>>bs at I'ahaoa.

Mr Kmftlc-, who is in rharcjo of the fish, liatcherv for tlir> Auckland district, has succeeded in terming about 30,000 tiout ova. from the Fairy Spring. For every one c E thcue captured, 50 ha\e been destroy^?', owing to the tramping along the stream by tho Maori boys and others in their 3n« deavour to capture the fish.

A btranqe fish resembling in some re-<-peits a giant horse-mackerel was found stranded on the beach at Oamaru on Sunday. It is over three feet in length and weighs upwards of 35'.b. The Oamaru Mail says that the possessor (Mr A. HeadlandJ proposes to plare it in tile fiepzing chamber until the profe^or of the Dunedin Museum ca« bo communicated with.

Friday** U'ctt Coast Tunes fays : "About 12 o'clock ypvlerday an unusual and moat interesting sight wa.-i witnessed hy a number of towm-ppoplp, a <-chool of whales pannier within a few hundred yards of the ••liore.''

THE PKOPOBKD TEAM OF ENGLISH BOWLERS. LONDON, July 2G. Yelland, the -well-known, bowk-r, has ani.ounced that h" is unable to arrange for a team ff English bovvleits to visit Australia this year. SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS. LONDON, July 25. La-ne, of Sydney, won the 100 yds Swimming Championship at Manchester by a touch m GOsec , Cavil 1, of Sydney, second, Derbyshire, of England, third.

In cases of dropsy and gout WOLFE'S SCHXAJTS w sswßUagndAd,

The cycling editor of the Melbourne Sportsman, in his notes of a recent d<tte, says that a special edition of the Sportsman de-serves to be issued g.vmj: the ntn\., that n certain racing man confidently told tno •writer that it could bo stated on his authority that last season he was never in a school of racing men, nor was he invited to join ! His name does not figure in the prize hst, £H& he had four bad falK ~~

The League of Victorian AVhoelmen finish tln«> .ve^ton w ii t Li a credit of £195, or more than si\ time.* as much a« was at tlie credit of the League .»t tiio end of the previous season Ihe Federal Council of Au=tidla<ia is negotiating with M.ijor Taylor. Jacquelin. and E'le^aard, probably the thret> I'P*t riders , m the world, for their apuearj^'-e iv Auv trolia.