LAND AND WATER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2695, 8 November 1905, Page 63

LAND AND WATER.

According to the Westport Times, W. Carson and J. M'lntosh, of Southland, have accepted the challenge of Casey and Petty, of Taranaki, to saw a white pine log 22in in diameter. The stake is £100. The match takes place at Eltham on December 29.

The 11 kiwis and two keas taken Home by Mr H. C Wilkie, late in the veterinary division of the New Zealand Department of Agriculture, for presentation to the British Zoo, form an interesting addi- , tion to the collection. Labels have been placed on the enclosure representing that •seven of the^- kiwis are the gift of the New Zealand Government and Mr Wilkie, and that four are presented by Lord Ranfurly. Writing by the last mail to Mr Gilruth, Chief Veterinarian, Mr Wilkie says: — "One of the keas died. The head keeper put one of them in a large aviary to fly about with a lot of Brazilian macaws and Australian cockatoos The result was that the kea was frightened by the others, and did not feed for several days. Tho bird never revived*"

An ex-res'dent of Gore has been distinguishing himself in tho Old Country (sajs tho Go i-3 .Standard). A Wigtown paper to hand statps that Mr Duncan M'Nab «as charged in tho local court with '■'furious driving of a motor car in Wigtownshire, and refusing to stop when signalled." The defendant was subjected to 24 minutes' examination, the case occupying three hours, and the sheriff, in dismissing the charge, complimented the motorist on his skilful driving ! A somewhat unusual consignment that passed over the Gore section of the railways on Tuesday comprised two crates of very much alive and pronouncedly forlorn cats, intended to cope with the rabbits on some back-blocks run.

On Saturday Messrs Henning and Wheleh, Akaroa, fishing outside the heads in the oil launch Wakamoa, caught 31 sacks of crayfish in eight hours, constituting a record. A dead seal lift long was washed ashore on Bushey Beach one day last week.

LADIES' GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP. MELBOURNE,- November 3. (Received Nov. 3, at 9.48 a.m.) The Ladies' Golf Championship was won by Miss Backhouse, an English player, representing the Adelaide Club, with a score of 299, after a splendid struggle with Miss Lewis (New Zealand), who" was beaten by the narrow margin of Uiree strokes. GOLF. MELBOURNE, November 4. In the golf matches, Miss Lewis (of New Zealand) and Miss Most (of Sydney) won the Ladies' Double Handicap.