Miscellaneous Items.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XII, Issue 707, 24 September 1903, Page 14

Miscellaneous Items.

Count de Nieva won the New South Wales Pigeon Shooting Championship last week with 21 kills. The New Zealanders, Chevannes and Eccles, gave a good display of shooting ; but both had the bad luck to break down on verv difficult birds.

A cable from Hobart gives very tragic particulars of the result of a walking contest. Somewhat foolishly, the attempt was made to tackle the climb to the top of Mount Wellington during the bad weather. The walkers encountered a snowstorm, and some became rigid with cold, and others fainted. Only two reached the Pinnacle. On the return, two were, missing, and search parties found a man named Richards dead on the track. The body of one, Radford, was also found some distance off. His foot had caught in the cleft of a sapling. The winner, Cocksbutt, suffered severely.

Stan. Wickham, the popular threequarter, scored all the 12 points for New South Wales in the match against Queensland at Brisbane on Saturday. Two tries and two penalty goals made up the total.

At the Auckland Golf Club’s links on Saturday afternoon, two matches (senior and junior classes) were played for the prizes presented by the club’s captain, Mr J. R. Sykes. Both matches were medal play, 18 holes. In the senior division Mr E. Turner annexed the prize with a net score of 87, and in the jumior class Mr E. A. Dargaville was the winner with a score of 85.