SHOOTING.

Timaru Herald, Volume LX, Issue 2262, 7 December 1896, Page 3

SHOOTING.

1 On Saturday the Tinaara Rifles tired < fora trophy presented by Mr J. «X 5 Grandi. The day. was fine and some I fair scores were registered. The condi--5 tions were 10 shots at 200 yards, any 7 position, Bisley scoring. Appended are . 3 the leading scores :— ' '■■■ \ -: 200 yds. Hep. Tl. « . Sergeant Macdonald ... 45 0 45 c Private Gritfen .„. ... 42 2 44 c Private Anderson ... 36 6 42 Sergeant Woraley ; .. 41 0 41 Private Toneyeliffe ... 41 0 41 ] Corporal Hoidgate ... 41 0 41 ! a Private Currie, J., 40 1 41 1 a Private Jo.wsey .38 3 4r 8 _ — — — — — 8 The rapid increase of European cities a during the past 20 years has been fre- 1 „ quently commented upon, but it is now < c pointed out that the growth is Jbut part ] of a movement m population which is i general throughout civilised countries. . 1 In America the increase of from J n 50,000,000 to 70,000,000 m less than two ( decades is parallelled by Germany, which has increased from 30,000,000 to 52,000,000 Bincethe Franco-Prussian war. England shows a like increase, confined chiefly to c the cities. According to Mulhall, tlie c total population of the earth m the time i of Augustus Caesar did not exceed 54,000,000, so that the United States has now more people than the earth contained when the empire of the Orosars was at its greatest/According to the * ». same authority the population of Knrope it was only 50,000,000 m. the 15th century, a while now it is estimated at over 357,000,000 people. • I- " Our agreement was that you were to n have half if you won the. suit," declared I- the client. "Exactly," responded the it lawyer, •' but you only got half of what d you sued for, and tlmt is juat my shwrc."