LAND AND WATER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 60

LAND AND WATER.

" Why, he's a pulling machine !"' was i the rather appropriate remark dropped by a spectator who witnessed the sculling I match on the Parramatta, River on Saturday week between Richard Arnst, of New ' Zealand, and Harry Pearce, the exchampion of Australia, for a 6fcaJce of £100 I (says the Sydney Daily Telegraph). Arnet's * methodical performance over the champion1 ship course of 3 miles 330 yards, and the comparative easy fashion in wheh he beat I hie man, certainly opened the eyes of not a few, and hi 6 style possibly justified the I observation mentioned. The result of the race was another exemplification of the fact ' that however excellent a qualification is \ science, it is not everything when pitted again6t physical strength. Fear-ce rowed a game, plucky battle, using all his skill I as a waterman "&nd rower of experience, but he wont down before the sheer physic al force of his opponent, who is a mere novice in the art. Among the large bags of quail that have I been shot this season in the Neleon district (says the Colonist), Mr G. Elliott holds the record for the largest bag. During tho season he has ehot no fewer than 582 birds. • His largest bag for one day was 56. Two \ hundred' and fifty of these birde were shot on Mr D. Boon's property, Ludd Valley. ) COURSING. ) Dunedin Challenge Stake. Tho Dunedin Coursing Club's Challenge ) St&ko will b« run at Forbury Park on

Vednesday, Thursday, and Saturday nex& Treat interest 16 centred in the meeting, / he best dogs in the Dominion being en;aged. The prize money has been apporioned as follows :— Winner £50, and silver iQa, and coffee service (presented by tho msiness people of the city) ; runner-up, 320; two dog 6at £6 each; and sevenlogs at £2 each. The following is the ■ Iraw: — Tartan meets Mather Macree, M. Faylor meets Royal Colours, Jessie's Dream neets Rosefeldt, Crosskuke meets Silvei' Knight, Poseiden meets Keighery's Gift, Royalist, meets Golden Days. Fear I». Baht meets Scottish Chief, Royal Artillery meets St. Patrick's Day, Goldspur meeta Polar Star, Harbour Light meets Blonde. Silverstream meets Diffident, Thoughtful meets Awapuni, Diamond Aurum meets Wolfe's Schnapps, Fontenoy meets Darlingtmrst. Prevention meets Florodora. Reform meets Sweet Ale, Call Boy meets Lady Fair-field, Erin's Pride meets Better Nights, Queensbury meets Blotsheet, Index meets Faugh-a-Ballagh, Lady Stockburn meeta Braddon'e Luck. Jim Forward meets Reel, St. Patrick meets Gold Band, Watermark meets Kilroy, Nine o' Diamonds meete Lady Molly, Wilful Watch meeta The Whisperer, Continuance meets Salvator, Wakeful meets Rosewater, Lord Clements meeta The Yoke, Te Rangi Pai meets Bugle Call.