RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 353, 1 March 1902, Page 1

RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

By Telegraph—Press Association. .Trentham, last night. This morning shooting began at eight o’clock. The weather was fine and bright, and the wind tricky. The competitors numbered 808. F. Okey (Taranaki) and J. Stevenson (Waiirate) each made the possible at 500. The prize-list in the Nelson Hatch, ‘2OO, 500, and 600 yards, seven shots oach distance, standing 200 yards, is as followsTrevethick (Petone), £6 91; Randell (Petone), £5, 90; lung (Oatnaru), M, 89 ; Morrow (Canterbury), j£4 8S ; Alport (Nelson), 88 L a very (Honorary Reserve), P 3, 87 ; Irvino (Waimea), £2, 87 ; Jeffrey (Dunstan), £2, 87 ; Webster (Auckland), £2, 87; Guise (Karori), £2, 87.

THE HAWKE’S BAY MATCH. EXCEPTIONAL FINE SHOOTI>G. By Telegraph —Press Association. Trentham, last nigli. The Hawke’s Bay match at 500 md 600 yards, ten shots each, was started at two o’clock. The weather was cloudy, aid a hi°h wind was blowing up the ranie. Five°shots to-morrow complete the mato. There was exceptional shooting at- the ou ran"e, one competitor, Pirie, of Napie, securing the possible 50. Eleven mac 49, and thirty-one 48. A few of toe leac iug scores were Ballinger, W ellington; Comes, Ohinemuri; Ilufhos, Manawat; 73 each ; Perrin, Palmerston North Hubbard, Ohinemuri, 72 cacn ; bandtorc Christchurch; Robinson, Hon. Reserve Randell, Karon; Hobbs, Hastings Webster, Auckland, Ridwell, J. Kaiuai wai, Cox, Auckland; Whlson, Petone Head, Wellington ; Perrm, Palmerston with 71 each.