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~ The Manchester Eifles paraded yesterday at the Eifle range for independent and volley firing. Colonel Stapp and Sergt.Major Macruillan superintended. Captain ;• Pleasants, Lieutenants Kirton and Gos- . ling Were present. The following were the results :— Volley firing : No. 1 squad, 10 men, 130 pointy average 13 ; No-. 2 * squad, 11 men, 140 points, average 12-72. Independent firing: No 1 squad, 1Q men, 12^ points, average 12*40 ; No 2 squad, 11 men, 180 points, average 16*86. The r average of the corps was 2733. . The - ... afternoon was wet and therefore the .. sthooting was not so good as it would have been under more favorable circumstances.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 58, 1 November 1890, Page 3
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