AUSTRALIAN.
Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Per Press association. THE TELEPHONE. Sydney, October 23, Since a reduction in rates applications have; been received for one thousand new telephone connections. The total number now in use in the colony is nearly 5000. RIFLE SHOOTING. At the National Rifle Meeting to-day both McGregor and Parsons were again prize-takers, the former taking the third prize in the Manning match, £B, and in fhe same contest Parsons won £3. At a meeting of riflemen it was decided to send a team to compete at Bisley next year, which is to be representative of all the colonies. The cost is estimated at about £l2O to £l5O per man. It is stated that a gentleman in Adelaide is willing to pay the cost of that colony’s representation • CYCLING. Don Walker, the cyclist, paced by a triplet, established a new record for Australasia over a quarter of a toiio,
which he traversed in 26 2-sth secs, thus lowering Kerr’s record of yesterday by 2-sths of a second.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 8660, 24 October 1896, Page 1
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168AUSTRALIAN. South Canterbury Times, Issue 8660, 24 October 1896, Page 1
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