VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 3680, 8 December 1874, Page 2

VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE.

No. 1 Company City Guards fired this morning in the final competition for places as Colonial representatives. The state of the weather—cloudy and rainy— accounts for the poorness of the scores, which we subjoin : - 200 400 .600 (300 Tl. Vol. Nightingale 432 4133 43343 10 434:3322 3420323—85 Corp. Treseder 4 41:3314 0341333 2343424 0303043—81 Sgt. M‘Gregor 3343344 343244:5 2222203 4200040-70 Corp. Coxhead 2234443 4200002 2300022 3032230—52 Captain Go die and Lieut. Wilson of the Port > halmt-rs Naval Bn-ade, juirpose competing at the Waikari range to morrow. A oluntcer Lean, Port Chalmcs Naval, having retired. Gunner Curie, Dunedin Artillery, will be a competitor. The ' orfc'u Lbiuediu Company competed this morning for their challenge belt, whicn is shotjj for monthly an i has to be won three limes in succession or four times at intervals to enable any member to claim it as hia absolute property. The conditions for tin competition were ranges 200, 500, and COO yards, five shots each ; any position. The weather was most unfavorable for shooting, despite which fact Volunteer Hicbardson made the s; lend id score of 54 out of a possible 60. The following were the scores 200 500 600 "Vol. Richardson ... 1!) 19 ](J _54 Sub.-Lieut. Pollock ... IS 1(5 14 —4s Corp. T. Hutcheson ... IS 17 12 _47 v °k View 19 13 14 —46 Tol. Allan 16 13 11 _4O Vol. W. Hutchinson ... 1(3 14 10 —4O Vol. Morgan IS 9 9 Sergt, Douglas IS 5 9 Thirty lour rank and file and thirty-six cade.sot the City Guards, under the coram nil of i aptaiii Wales, assembled in tbs driil-shed last evening, to undergo monthly' inspection by Major' Atkinson ; and, aft r company drill, the prizes won at recent company matches wore presented by Major Sarvood, ol the St Kilda (Victoria) Artillery, who, addressing the cadets, told them their drill was somewhat faulty but creditable on the whole, whilst he wss much dissatisfied with th ■ state 1 f th.; uniforms and weanons of bth cadets an.; men. The rifles of the I tier he found in a state that would have subjected members of his own company to a fine. The efficiency of a company cou'd be greatly judged by the state of their arms and accoutrements ] without proper attention there was almost sure to be defective drill. Considering the c .mpany’s strength the attendance sliou d hive been larger. The battery he commanded in Victoria number'd 15J and the attendance on para le gonora'ly amounted to two-thirds, and rarely fll belowi three fifths. In the Col >ny they meant work, and did not believe in playing at soldiers. There they had a system o dividing the company into squads, each under a sergeant and corooral. LTiz s were aw n ded to the squad which secured the best attendance. It would be well for this principle to be initated here, and he announced his intention of giving a prize to be competed for iu the above manner. ' He would probably visit Otago again in the course of a few months, when he hoped no room' for fault-finding would exist. Captain Wales thanked Major Sargood for his remarks, and, addressing the men, said he hoped they would profit bv them