CADET MARKSMEN.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1529, 27 August 1912, Page 7

CADET MARKSMEN.

. ft _ .i ■'... THE "ROBERTS" IMPERIAL TROPHY. On Friday next tho cadets who are to represent Wellington College in the Earl Roberts Imperial Trophv Competition for 1912 will firo olf at Trentham Rifle Range; where they are at present encamped for preliminary training. Considerable interest attaches to, tho match this year, as tho Wellington boys will havo to face service conditions in their shooting, instead of 'the good old bull's-eye match. Service conditions were introduced to the competition of 1911, but New Zealand was not represented at the last competition, owing to the late publication of tho circular letter from tho British Army Council in this Dominion, and the. boys will therefore shoot under service conditions for tho first time on Friday. The Earl Roberts Imperial Trophy Competition was instituted in September, 1907, experimentally—(i) to reward cadets who had qualified in musketry on the short range, and had shown diligence, regularity, and punctuality in attendance at instruction, by giving them an insight into servico shooting and into conditions beyond the mere elementary work of gallery shooting; (ii) to test, on tho long range at varying distances, the capabilities of lads with the rack riflo of the.soldier, giving tho lads an insight into tho effect of weather, wind, sunshine, and cloud on tho marksman's aim, and broadening their minds. There is no fixed date for the shoot-olf by any individual teams, it being left to tho competing teams to select any suitable date between January 1 and August 31. It is suggested in the regulations governing the match that teams should, if possible, be chosen as the result of good consistent shooting with .22 rifles on the short range, preferably by tho use of tho .22 ride test practices approved by the Army Council f* tho Aanual Imperial Cadot'Rifle Meeting in London. After this experience, six longrange practices (.303 rifle) should enablo the boys to do well in tho "Roberts Imperial" if well instructed. .Of these six practices, three should be carried out under Roberts Imperial conditions. The match is fired in three stages—Snapshooting, 200 yards, at figure targets, visible for three seconds, each cadet to fire seven rounds, from behind coyer, in prone position; slow firing, at 500 yards, at hguro targets, visible for tiO seconds, each cutlet to firo five rounds, from behind cover; in. prone position, in GO seconds; attack match, from 500 to 200 yards, figure tarLast year's results were as follow:— Ist '2nd '.ltd Stage. Stage. Slogo. Hits. Hits. Hit--. T'l Av'™. .England 38 29 22 .89. U.l Transvaal 37 8 ..1 Mj b..i Natal "- s 5 -■' ° 8 '~ Dominion of > Canada :=0 i 21 48 6.0 NS.W 12 R 20 ,0 •'■° South. Australia 12 (i 9 27 3-3 i Major J. G. Hughes, D.5.0., of tho General Staff at Headquarters, will superintend tho shoot-off of the Wellington Cadets at Trentham on Friday. A practice match will take place to-morrow. . ■ iMR. SHAKES'S EXPERIENCE. For over thirty years Mr. James Shakes has been a resident of AVellington. His shop,in Manners Street is well known, and his experience will bo interesting to many a sufferer from Rheumatism, Gout, Sciatica, Lumbago, Rheumatic Gout, Stone, Gravel, aud kindred diseases. Ho writes:— , '"During a severe attack of Rheumatic Gout, I tried RHEUMO. All pains left mc in twenty minutes after the first dose and by tho following morning nil swelling had disappeared. Hearing that a friend nf 'mine was suffering from Rheumatic Gout. I went up to his place with a bottle of RHEUMO, and, as in ray case,' the result was a cure. I can honestly recommend RHEUMO to sufferers from Rheumatic Gout; as a euro it is a. certainty." Perhaps you havo found that other so.alled remedies—liniments, embrocations, plasters, or pills—could not cure . your Rheumatism or Gout. They did not give relief, for they could not touch the real cause- of tho snffevlnr—excess uric acid in the blood. RHEUMO is the one medicine that always brings relief. All chemists and scores at 2s. Gd. and -fs. od.'