THE COLONIAL PRIZE FIRING.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2527, 23 March 1871, Page 2

THE COLONIAL PRIZE FIRING.

The Southern Cross of alie 17th hist., gives the fo lowing account of die shooting ou the previous clay : “ The tiring for the running prizes was proceed cl with. As it was the last of the champion sot, considerable interest was evinced by the spectators and competitors. Before the match commenced, Captain Wales, of No. 1 Company, Hide Volunteers, Otago, was the highest aggregate scorer with 317 ; Reid, of Otago, was 315 ; Taylor and Caristie, also of Otago, were 311 ; and Goldie, the champion of 1870, was 308. Of these Taylor was the first to tire, scoring 40 with 12 hits. Goldie also scored the same number, and Wilson made the splendid score of 51, which made the aggr. gate of both 355, Taylor having made 350. Wales being the highest .aggregate scorer, there was great excitement wh n his squad was firing, and, when on on counting the score it was found he had made 40 poiu's, it was considered tbit Ivs chance for the belt looked very well, as Keid was the only man to fire who had any prospect of heating him and he would have to score 48 to tie. Reid’s admnvrs. however, believed him equal to the task, and they would probably not have been disappointed bad be not met with a variety of accidents which materially affected his shooting. Ho ran the point of the ramrod into the palm of his hand while loading his second round, and inflicted rather an awkward wound, dropped one of the bullets, lost his caps, and was altogether most unfortunate. As it was, he hit ten times and scored 39 points, making his aggregate 354. Christie, the champion of ISOS, made 48 ; aggregate, 353. G Jdie and Wilson, having tied for the fifth prize, fired off at 200 yards, and the former made a bull’s-eye, and the la'ter a centre. THE CHAMPION BELT AND PRIZES. The champion belt, gold medal, and the sum of LSO, to he given -o the highest aggregate scorer in the Ist, 2nd, 4th, s?b, oth, 7th. and Sth sets, Colonial Prizes, 1.50; 2nd highest aggregate scorer, L3O; 3rd highest aggregate scorer, L2O ; 4th higho t aggregate scorer, Lls; sth highest aggregate scorer, LlO. We give each man’s score in the different sets included in the championship, and bis grand total as follows :

Wales 11111 S 3 1 S 1 ... 16 31 24 40 GO 11, g II 146 46 363 Taylor ... 17 43 20 46 53 133 44 356 Goldie ... 16 42 29 46 55 121 46 355 Wil-on ... 15 47 26 46 55 115 51 355 Boid ... 15 50 29 42 44 135 39 351 Christie 15 34 33 51 67 112 41 353 Craiggie ... 17 43 25 44 53 118 48 348 Buchanan ... 6 33 25 43 16 156 35 344 Greer .. 14 32 20 44 55 121 50 342 Chamberlain .. 15 38 21 47 57 119 38 335 llenouf .. 11 39 21 41 56 125 38 331 Mackenzie .,17 35 24 46 56 102 39 319 Adam .. 12 15 29 47 60 112 43 318 Wood .. 15 40 31 45 56 89 35 311 Morrow ..16 38 13 45 44 118 37 311 Grey .. 14 20 19 39 57 112 41 311 Milne ..18 33 28 48 54 88 41 310 Guy .. 14 21 27 50 60 105 33 310 Douglas .. 16 20 39 44 59 27 21 305 Mellsop .. 7 2 i 23 48 48 106 36 294 Chicken .. 8 27 13 42 55 98 45 289 All n .. 9 21 19 30 57 110 41 287 Barnett .. 17 29 23 40 53 90 34 286 Buchanan .. 17 26 14 44 51 96 38 286 Cummings .. 11 23 15 43 39 116 38 285 Benton .. 11 19 21 40 49 100 40 280 Leary .. 11 30 25 47 55 80 29 277 Thomson .. 14 18 21 39 45 93 47 277 Martelia .. 18 15 19 42 57 88 36 275 Howe .. 14 40 23 43 53 66 34 273 Sandford .. 9 22 28 47 54 76 37 273 Macintosh .. 16 28 19 39 51 89 26 268 Welch ..15 35 22 41 37 84 30 264 Stevens .. II 13 10 30 35 130 34 263 Tomlinson .. 14 27 37 41 56 50 27 252 Bell .. 7 31 16 38 52 75 32 251 Anderson .. 14 17 15 25 54 90 36 251 C a 1 lory ..16 28 26 25 43 79 30 247 Mackenzie .. 8 5 12 39 57 93 30 244 Stonchridge .. 10 16 16 41 54 74 32 243 Coyle .. 14 27 15 38 41 71 33 230 Keeffe .. 9 19 14 27 31 109 37 238 Cunningham .. 9 27 12 25 30 100 24 236 L’oyd ■ 11 21 21 25 47 66 24 215 Brown .. 9 9 9 29 21 55 31 163 Kent .. 9 18 2f 14 26 27 9 124