General!Government Prize Firing

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume IV, Issue 382, 26 February 1876, Page 3

General! Government Prize Firing

at Wanganui. (PEOM OUB OWN COBBKSPONDKKT.) Wanganui, Friday afternoon. The prize firing has commenced. Weather fine. First Carbine Match : Bannister, Wellington Artillery, 47 points ; Bell, Auckland Artillery, 44 ; McCredie, Wellington Artillery, 43 ; Mason, Wellington Artillery, 43. Second Carbine Match : Bell, Auckland Artillery, 28; Eaton, Christchurch, 28; Barriball, Waiuku Cavalry, 28 ; Crowther, A.C., 28. The Artillery Corps is armed with a superior weapon. Third Carbine Match: Bell, Auckland Artillery, 29 ; Bannister, Wellington Artillery, 26 ; Fox, Christchurch, Artillery, 26 ; Stevens, Wellington Artillery, 36. First Rifle Match: Morrow, Auckland, 65 ; Mellsop, Waiuku, 64 ; Mann, Dunedin, 63 ; Willcock, Dunedin, 63; Daize, Nelson,' 62; Wilson, Dunedin, 62 ; Anderson, Dunedin, 61 ; Capstick, Dunedin, 61. Winners of range prizes : 400 yds., Willcock, 27; 500 yds., King, 24; 600 yds., Anderson, 21. Wellington, Wednesday. Yesterday 54 messages were received per Australian cable and 39 forwarded. The process for receiving and transmitting messages by cable is much slower than by the land line. The words are indicated by flashes of light; two operators are therefore required when receiving messages, one to watch the flashes, the other to write from dictation.