ARTILLERY PIiIZE FIIIING. The Government prizes for skill in gunnery practice were this morning competed for at Port Britoraarfc. There was a muster of the Navals to the number of forty - Lieutenant LeKoy and Paymaster Hampton *being present. The company was divided into three detachments, and the firing commenced at eight o'clock. There was a buoy moored out in the bay at the distance of 1,600 yards — the target being six feet by six. The shell practice was not so good, owing to the badness of the fuses. The first, of £3 10s., fell to Gun Detachment No. 3 ; the second prize, of £3, was allotted to Detachment No. 2 ; and the third prize of £2 10s. was given to Detachment No. 1.
As will bo seen from another column, there is to bo a meeLiug of I lie members of the new Sappers and Miners Company this evening, and that thoy have now adopted the more ambitious title of .Royal Engineers. '
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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 405, 28 April 1871, Page 2
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