NELSON RIFLE MEETING.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1879, 2 March 1880, Page 2

NELSON RIFLE MEETING.

[By Telegraph.] NELSON, March 1. There was a parade at Brightwater between two and three, when 161 members were present. At half-past two, Col. Packa came on the ground, and shortly after the meeting was opened by Mrs Pitt, wife of Major Pitt, firing the first shot, which was scored as a bulls-eye. The lady having been cheered, and the men divided into twelve squads, actual business commenced. Prior to this, however, the markers had expressed some dissatisfaction, alleging that the butts did not sufficiently protect them. Upon this some alterations were made, but shortly after the firing commenced, one of the markers received a nasty cut on the arm by a splinter off the target. Shortly after firing commenced a fire occurred in camp. It appears that the occupants of a tent composed of Wellington and Napier men, under the command of Lieutenant Bennett, had been smoking their sights at a candle, which they left burning. This ultimately communicated with the bedding, which, in addition to trunks containing private effects and drees uniforms, was destroyed. The tent, however, was saved, as also some hundred rounds of ammunition. The scores at the £OO yards’ range of the first match are :—Okey (Taranaki), 27 ; Paynter (Stoke), 27 ; Croseman (Nelson), 26; Rogers (Blenheim), 26; Achison (Riverton), 26; Captain Kelly (Thames), 26; McKenzie (Blenheim), 26; Fenton (Thames), 26; Morris (Oamaru), 26; Coventry (Dunedin), Smith (Dunedin), Deforges (Marton), Parnell (Wanganui), D. Mclntosh (Wanganui), Moore (Thames), Bennett (Nelson), Olouston (Nelson),;Quartermaster Fox (Christchurch), Lieutenant Bennett (Wellington), France (Wellington), Lieutenant Somerville (Wanganui), Beach (Stoke), Milne (Wanganui), Weir (Thames), Menzies (Kaiwarawara), Buckley (Christchurch), Christie (Taieri), each 25 ; Captain Wilson (Dunedin), Lieutenant Appleby (Christchurch), Captain Howea (Waikato),

Pint (Thames), Sergt. Clark (Thames), Monk (Wellington), Parlor (Stoke), Thurston (Waiuku), Bird (Nelso-.), Hunter (Nelson) Parole (Thames), Cummings (Wanganui), Richardson (North Dunedin), Hoskins (Taranaki), Hook (Taranaki), Fowler and Curtian (Nelson), Hutchinson (Dunedin), Prouce, senior (Wellington), Captain Thompson (Kaiwarawara), D. Bums (Nelson), each 24. The remaining scores 7 ar ds are .- —Harkness (Stoke), Holhwell (Grahamstown), Hood (Taras' 1 )’ _f°P? r (Spring Creek), Martin, Stock, Hams (Auckland), Robinson (WeiHngton), Burr (Torpedo Corps, Wellington), Dixon (H.M., Wellington), Fathers (Nelson), Roily and Currie (Waiuku), Cooper (Auckland), Ballinger (Wellington), Kenny (Stoke), Sergeant Base (Otago), A. Ballinger (Wellington), J. Hunter (Waiwera), Bradley (Stoke), Hood (Blenheim), Webster (Dunedin), Miller (North Dunedin), Daney (Wellington), McKenzie (Riverton) each 23 ; Cochrane (Grahamstown), Lieut. Adams (Nelson), Stagg (Spring Creek), Doiga (Blenheim), Gordon (Thames), Taylor (Auckland), Haycock (Stoke), Harding (Oamaru), Adams, Benwick, Straehan, and Best (Nelson), Heslop (North Dunedin), France (Wellington), Holmes, D, Battery, Thompson, B. Battery, Fredrias (Grabamstown), Thompson (Grahamstown), Twist (Nelson), Sinclair, E. Battery, Hunter, Civilian, Taney (Wellington), Coleman (Waikato), Howie (Wauku), Batt (Waimea), T. Thomas (Thames), Sergt. Ballinger (Wellington), Downie (Grabamstown), Edie (Auckland) Rutherford (Waimea), Croucher (Stoke), Best (Stoke), Gilchrist (Riverton), Winton (Riverton), each 22; Turner (Blenheim), 18; Sutton (Spring Creek), 19 ; Sutton (Spring Creek), 21 ; Lyon (Riverton), 20 ; Price (Qrahamstown), 20; Haslet ( Vuckland), 20; Skinner (Auckland), 19; Rose (Auckland), 19; Weymss (Blenheim), 20 ; Thombum, 21; Captain Thompson (Kaiwarra), 20 ; Haycock, (Nelson), 19; Sutton (Marlborough), 18; Hale (Wellington), 20: B. Soper, 21 ; Haslet (Auckland), 20; Hutchison (North Dunedin), 20; Mair (Wellington), 21; Winsett (Nelson), SI ; McKenzie (Wellington Artillery), 21 ; Morrison (Dunedin), 18; Share (Nelson), 20; Rowling (Nelson), 21 ; Moore (Nelson), 21 ; Black (Dunedin), 17 ; Lees (Dunedin), 18 ; Morrison (Port Chalmers), 17 ; Lieut. Strange (Christchurch) 19 ; Sergt. Hill (Christchurch), 20 ; Captain Crowe (Wellington), 21; Smith (Wellington), 20; McLean (Waikato), 17; Johnson (Waiuku), 21; Smith (Auckland), 20 ; Aitken (Waiuku), 16 ; Thurston (Auckland), 20; Mussen (Armed Constabulary), 19 ; Laird (Armed Constabulary), 21; Barrabool (Waiuku), 21; Bird (Waimea), 18; Badger (Hokitika), 17; Mala (Waimea), 20 ; A. Bird (Waimea), 21; Hall (Waimea), 17 ; Hagan (Waimea), 21; Pratt (Waimea), 20; Dalziel (Wellington),2l; Jamieson (Thames), 21 ; Hay (Auckland), 20; Stafford (Stoke), 16; Sutton (Stoke), 20; Lewis (Kaiwarra), 20; Maddox (Blenheim), 21; Fox (Dunedin), 20.

NELSON, March 2.

Firing was resumed at 6.30 this morning, when the second and third matches were fired. In match number two the winners are—lst, McKenzie, Blenheim, 2nd, Okey, Taranaki, 3rd, Morris, Oamaru, 4th, Hale, Wellington, each scoring 38 ; sih, Rogers, Marlborough, 6th, Paynter, Stoke, each scoring 37; 7th, Mclntosh, Kelson, Bth, Fenton, Qrahamstown, 9th, King, Oamaru, 10th, W. Ballinger, Wellington, 11th, Kitchen, Wellington, 12th, Purcell, Wanganui, 13th Cummings, Wanganui, 14th, Webster, Dunedin, loth, Harding, Oamaru, each scoring 36. In the third match the winners are—lst, Laird, VV anganui, 37 ; 2nd, Clark, Grahamstown, 36 ; 3rd, Burr, Wellington, 4th, Thomas, Qrahamstown, sth, Parslow, Grahamstown, 6th, Currie, Auckland, 7th, France, Wellington, Bth Boss, Napier, 9th, C. France, Wellington, each scoring 36. The Canterbury competitors scored as follows in the second match:—Buckley, Christchurch Rifles, 33; Appleby, Christchurch Engineers, 31. In the third match:—Hill scored 32, Sinclair 30, Fox 30, Strange 31, Mapp 29.