THE INTERNATIONAL RIFLE MATCH.
In a communication to the Colonial Secretary of New South Wales, Mr Augustus Morris, executive commissioner for that Colony at the Philadelphia Exhibition, makes the following reference to the International Rifle Match:—“lt is not‘considered desirable that the match should be an annual affair, as too great frequency would destroy the interest in it, and render the presence of many of the teams unlikely. At a meeting of the various riflemen, it was agreed that the Rifle Association of America should take the subject in hand, and inaugurate a council of equal numbers from those nation's and people who are willing to compete for the rifle championship; and that this council should have the power of fixing the date of the international matches, and of otherwise deciding upon questions referred to it. I greatly favored this proposition as being one which, while it has a tendency to promote international cordiality, will admit Australia on an equality with all the nations whose representatives may form the rifle council.”
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Evening Star, Issue 4295, 1 December 1876, Page 4
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170THE INTERNATIONAL RIFLE MATCH. Evening Star, Issue 4295, 1 December 1876, Page 4
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