LAND AND WATER.
A feature of the shooting at the Wanganui rifle meeting last week was the splendid performance of Bugler Soler, aged 15, who •worked himself into seventh glace in the aggregate final. Included in the competitors were several members of the team which recently represented New Zealand in Australia, some past champions of New Zealand, and holders of the North Island Championship for the past few years. Soler finished but 11 points behind the winner of the championship. A record for New Zealand in longdistance pigeon-flying was created on Monday in the Wellington Homing Society's race from Paxenga. The bjrds were liberated at Parenga at 5 o'clock on Monday' morning, and the first bird home, owned by Mr W. Bailey, reached Wellington, at half-past 3on line same' day. A distance of nearly 500 miles had thus been covered in 10 hours and a-half.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 66
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145LAND AND WATER. Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 66
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