COLONIAL PRIZE FIRING.
[Cy Electric Telegraph.] Stoke, March 12. All Com'-rs’ Second Match.— Ranges, 500 and COJ yards ; live shots at each ; any position ; targets, G x Gft. ; centre, 4ft.; bull’s-eye, 2ft. ; no trial shot ; bona fide large-bore r.tles or carbines to receive two points at 500 yards, and two points at 600 yards, if brought into competition with smallbore rifles or carbines Points. Gray, Wanganui (medium), Ist, IS and half entrance fees - - 38 M'Laren, S.D.R, (medium), 2nd, L 5 and one-fourth entrance fees - 35 Bould, Hutt (medium), 3rd, L 3 and ono-fourth entrance fees - - 35 Thompson, Thames (medium), 4th, L2 35 M'Gregor, No. 1 (small-bore), sth, LI 35 Leigh, J., Thames (Enfield), 6th, LI ■ 34 Taylor, Dunedin Scottish (Enfield), 7th, LI 34 Richardson, W.T. (small-bore), Sth, LI 34 Buchanan, D., W.T. (Enfield), 9th, LI 34 Morley, A.C. (Enfield), 10th, LI - 34 To-morrow two matches come off to demonstrate the difference in firing with a dark-colored target, and white bull’s-eye, and the ordinary colored target. Volunteer Soall, of Auckland, advocates the former. The Government gives prizes to let the principle have a trial.
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Evening Star, Issue 3140, 13 March 1873, Page 3
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183COLONIAL PRIZE FIRING. Evening Star, Issue 3140, 13 March 1873, Page 3
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