RIFLE MATCHES.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2360, 25 October 1870, Page 2

RIFLE MATCHES.

Two matches were fired at the North Dunedin butts on Saturday, The Naval Brigade tired off their match with the Greymouth rifles, and the No. 1 Compapy theirs with the Kelso (Scottish) rifles. In both matches the scores were extremely poor—so poor indeed, that defeat in the one instance was expected as a matter of course, and the supposition proves not to have been unfounded ; and in the other a similar result may reasonably be anticipated The day was not regarded as a very favorable one to rifle shooting, the wind being very puffy, and the sun at times much to. strong. In the Naval brigade match, the conditions.were tea men a-sidc, ranges 400, 500, and 600 yard?. The local team scored a grand total of # 346 points, or an average of 34'G ; and their opponents a grand total of 305 points, or an average of 304 points ; the Grey mouth company thus winning by 49 points. In No. I Company’s match, the conditions were—l2 men a-sidc, ranges 200, 500, and COO yards. The results published in the Times being incorrect, both in the total and the average, we subjoin the offi.ial score, viz : o c o o y? % j' or o jo e » o 4 ® » » o,S' c = c us *3 *0 hi 2 S. S’ S'» CD (V a <- I ' ** reny ti: n> to 2. g § i s« , ©"SO 0* w O *1 O jr* B B § . w ro ro ro t-s io w w w cc d WIO 10 WWWWti 14 6H O to (i WW U 1-3 to U A CO-. I 11111111 iII Ig* j WioO»>P-i(*C3Mrf*.tp-vOOSW co ■ MifS OOWOOIvWICWW is CO to CO >fs- OO>olo 4- Sc hO O W CO lO W CO O vO o wo 111 l i m i nit H O I- M - J Si W O OI iMO S) ' C c: if W 11 !(*■ M w s w c c g » O U W W W £) O 10 M O 15 i W3C:iiOliOwwfrCit--3 tC/COCOCOCOCOOCOCOt-CCO 4*^ i i co tc o» d i— ic o at to ' 1 H C> I W&to & W f— tS CO I- 1 A match between the Dunedin Artillery and the Greyrnouth Rifles will be fired on Saturday next.