VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 4032, 28 January 1876, Page 3

VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE.

The Artillery have .accepted* the challenge* Of the Dunedin Battery to fire a match' .- ' The Ddfae'din Naval Brigade muatered last evening for weekly drill, /when there was a capital attendance of twenty-eight members, including Incut. J Smith (in command).. and# Suh=£j£Htr. - The ’corps was put tlu-ough gun drilLjand" cutlass exercise, after which an adjournment was made to hold the quarterly meeting, -Pour new members and one honorary member were proposed. (*,unner Jamieson was elected treasurer. Gunner R. MfNanghton and Gunner was also appointed musketry instructor—all three offices being' tenable, for the current year.' ' ' ,ifL COMpjjaTnoii. . ta Vtlre Cadets for the district pnzes by the General Government l took place at, the Anderson’s Bay rangethis mornmg under the-superintendehce of Canto. 118 Waleei and. De-Montalk;- For the Duneffin Corps—High- School Artillery and No. 1 prizes, of the value of LlO, a^®,9® e *’dd*f ; The High School Company fur-’ “SftW Jna representatives and the Nb.vp 200, an<f 300 > yards ; seven shots at each : muzzle-loadingj or Calisher or Terry carbme; The competition only open to cadets between fourteen and seventeen years of age. £ MTjeodj the principal prize-taker, won the Cadets’ Cup at, the Rifle Associations late fleeting. The principal scores W6f6 ■ -

The ( .prjze 3) therefore; fall as under :- First,p W e, Gruimer.tM'Leod, High school,' L3f BrooTt, No. 1, L2 : third'* lfo;a, Ll-; fifth, GunneJfetef^^? 011001 ' 15s ' 3ixth > Cadet Nq. 1,155; *eventh, Cadet Dic k: No. 1, 10s. j eighth,. Cadet Wallace, No I 10s; ninth, Gunner Caldor, High School 10s' The thirty highest scorers in the Colony in this, inatch wfll compete for the Cadet Chain. pionJßeltfor; 1876. The conditions of the ma.teh.will be the same as in the preliminary contest. The first prize-takerwill receive, .in addition to tho Champion Beit, a silver medal and My. the second prize is Es:' the thttd tei L3 ( ; and,the fourth M.

HRIZE FIRING.

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Iwere only a point short; Leigh and Cooper .two points snort. It is declared almost impossible to make the minimum score with the inferior rifles that the Auckland men are armed with. Representations on the Subject will probably be made to the Government.

; At Grahamstown the following have qualified :—Captain Murray, Thames Scottish, 173 ; Hogg, Naval Brigade, 170 ; Gordon, Navals, 169 ; Hicks, Rangers, 168 ; Fenton, .Scottish, 166 ; Armstrong, 165; Thomas, Navals, 165. i The firing for district representatives in the Pirst Westland Rifles resulted as follows :—Munyard, first competition 91, second do 90; total 181. Stoncbridge, first competition 83, second do, 97; total, 180. : The highest scorers in the first stage of the competition by the Christchurch infantry for representatives were—Manning, 88 : Parsons, 82; Beattie, 79; Marshall, 76 ; and Percy, 75. The five members of the Wanganui Volunteers who qualified in, the; first stage for representatives firing, completed their firing to-day, and all passed the minimum. The total scores are—W. Armstrong, 176; J. Pumall, 174; Lord, .173; J. Churton,,l69; G. A. Armstrong, 165. ; At Nelson, the following scores were made hy the City rifles >

Ist Co. 2nd Co. Tl. Grossman .99 .., 100 ... 199 Burtus 88 ... 90 ... 178 C. Burncs 91 ... 83;'.. 174

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