LAND AND WATER

Otago Witness, Issue 2734, 8 August 1906, Page 52

LAND AND WATER

Our Naseby correspondent write* that curling is now being indulged in on many of tho dams in the district, the ice being sufficiently thick to permit of votaries of the '" roar in' game" indulging in their favourite pastime.

A Christ-church tel&gram .states that at a meeting of the New Zealand Boxing Council the life disqualifications imposed on D. P. Mahoney and J. A. Cos hy the Canterbury Centre, in connection with the final bout for the Heavy-weight Championship at the recent tournament, were confirmed.

A Press Association message says that the Eltham Gun Club's Handicap of £100 was shot yesterday. Whittle (Xcv Plymouth) and M'Donald (Wanganui) divided firs-t ana second prize money (£80), killing 13 birds and mi&sing one, Lucera. Buckruan. and Bailey divided third and fourth prizes (£2O).

A telegram received in Blenheim intimated that a few days ago Mes«rs Norton and Jackson, Kaikoura. had .secured a 4-tun " right" whale. This makes the second catch in South Bay for the season.

The Marlboro u^h Rowing Association has instructed iU delegate to u=e h s b^st endeavour at the annual meeting of the is'ew Zealand Rowing Association to have valuable trophies included m future cluin p:onship prizes instead of all money. A record has been put up by tl'e Wellington University Football Olrb so far this season, eight matches having been played, all of which have been lost an<l no points scored.

At tho p3vm« orer of the stakes in connection with the race for the sculling championship. Towns said he was not prepared at piosent to state what he would do m regard to Stanbuiy's challenge foi another race sir months hence.

A Wanganui telegram states tlia-t at a> public meeting there it was decided to endeavour to arrange a. sculliijg match between W. "Webb, of Wanganui, champion ot New Zealand, and a prominent seconi-

rate Australian professional ; the race to be rowed on the Wanganui River, and the stake to be £100 or over. A sub-committee was appointed to confer with the Christmas Carnival Committee with a vi«w to arranging for a race during the Christmas Carnival.