NELSON RIFLE MEETING.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1884, 8 March 1880, Page 3

NELSON RIFLE MEETING.

[Bt Tbmqbaph.] NELSON, March 6. Sixteenth Match for teams of five members from each Company. Ranges, 200, 400, 500 and 600 yards. Seven shots at each range. Ist prize, £lO, to the highest team ; 2nd, £7 10s to the second highest; and £5 to the third.

The winning team in this match is the Dunedin City Guards, Blenheim Rifles, second; and Wellington City Rifles, third. The following are the scores : Dunedin Guards—Captain Wilson, 91 ; Pox, 81; Smith, 95 ; Coventry, 100 j Webster, 95. Total—462.

Blenheim—Lieut. Roger*, 95 ; Griffiths, 88 ; Turner, 97 ; Hood, 81; A. McKenzie, 90. Total—4sl.)

Wellington City Rifles—Lieut. Ballinger, 91; Mair, 90 ; A. Ballinger, 88 ; Hale, 87 ; Bannister, 86, Total —442. Thames Scottish—Ponton, 88; Browne, 87 ; Price, 87 ; Weir, 87 ; Cochrane, 80. Total—--441.

Victoria Eifles, Auckland—Lieut. Skinner, 87; Sergt. Haslett, 83 ; Sergt. Taylor, 87 ; Cooper, 88 ; Haslett, 89. Total—434. Spring Creek Eifles —R. Soper, 87 ; A. Sutton, 80; P. Sutton, 78; P. Soper, 90; Stagg, 84—total, 427. Taranaki Rifles—Hoskins, 88; Howell, 72 ; R. A. Hooker, (84; Okey, 100; [B. Hooker, 79—total, 423. Riverton Rifles—Achoson, 88 , Winton, 83 ; Lyon, 83 ; Gilchrist, 75 ; McKenzie, 93 — total, 431 Stoke Rifles—Lieut. Paynter, 98; Bradley, 71 ; Sergt. Doige, 88; Thos. Burn, 77 ; Beach, 87 —total, 431. North Dunodm —Richardson, 89 ; Hislop, 87 ; Marshall, 84 ; Miller, 87 ; Hutchinson, 78—total, 415. Nelson Rifles—Only four men fired : Lieut. Adams, 88: Grossman, 97; Grey, 88; T. Burns, 86 —total, 351. The seventeenth match for carbine*, which is of similar conditions to the sixteenth, except that 400 yards is substituted for 600, resulted as follow* :

Nelson Naval Brigade, 442 ; Thames Naval, 438 ; Wellington Naval, 428. The declared scores were :

Nelson Naval Team. —Lieut. Hunter, 88 ; Fathers, 92 ; G, Bennett, 80 ; W. Moore, 94; Rowlings, 88. Thames Naval.—Tarslow, 90 ; Gordon, 93 ; Thomas, 89 ; Armstrong, 85 ; Jameson, 87. Wellington Naval.—Lieut. Bennett, 91 ; O. France, 88 ; A. Dixon, 85 ; F. France, 83; Lieut. Davy, 81. The others are :

Auckland Artillery. Henderson, 95 ; Woolley, 92 ; H. Rose, 87 ; W. Rose, 85 ; Fairs, 68 ; total—427. Nelson Artillery.—C. Moore, 87; O. Bird, 86 ; D. Hood, 82; F. Wimsett, 82; Clouston, 80; total-417. Christchurch Artillery. Lieut. Strange, 98 ; Fox, 87 ; Sinclair, 85 ; Hill, 79 ; Mapp, 66 ; total—4o6. Wairoa Light Horse.—McLean, 87 ; Aitken, 86 ; Howie, 83 ; J. Thurston, 76; Johnson, 69 ; total, 401. Wellington Artillery. Robinson, 84; McOrodie, 82 ; Scott, 81 ; Holmes, 76; Turner, 75 ; total, 399. In the 7th and Bth matches the prize winners cannot be sent yet, as the number of parades that the men have attended count, and these are not made up. The shooting scores, however, are, for No. 7 : —Okey, 101 ; Buckley, A. Ohristom, D rince, each 99; Hay, Smith, 98; Rogers, 96; Dalgiel, Badger, 95; Price, Christie, Purcell, Griffiths, McKenzie, Paynter, 94; Grossman, 93; Morris, Skinner, Coventry, 92 ; Taylor, Turner, 91; Fenton, Sergt. E. Doidge, Oorp. Hasslett, Harding, A. Ballinger, King, McKee, Fairs, 90 ; Hoskins, Hale, Hood, Wobster, G. Miller, Cooper, Haddock, 89; Richardson, Capt. Wilson, Edy, Monk, Hislop, Mair, Crowe, 88; Hutchinson, 87 ; N. Ballinger, Mackenzie, 86 ; Pink, Marshall, Howell, Sergt. Haslett, Menzies, 84 ; Bridley, 83; Milne, Sergt. Ross, Beach, Mclntosh, 82; Stagg, Bannister, 81; Lever, Weir, 80 ; F. Soper, Thorburn, Desfonges, Harkness, Lieut. Adams, 79; Weymss, Burns, 78; G. Hooker, H. Sutton, Sergt. Ballinger, 76 ; Cummings, 75; Luton, Winton, 74; Cochrane, 73 ; F. Sutton, Capt. Thompson, 71 ; R. Hooker, Orouohier, 63 ; Gilchrist, 61; Martin, Stafford, 59. In match eighth the scores are—Somerville, 94 ; Woolley, Lieut. Gordon, 92; Thomas, Keller, 91 ; Henderson, T. Wimsett, Strone, 90 ; Jamieson, J. Moore, O. France, 89 ; J. Thomas, 88 ; Monson, Lieut. Hunter, D. Thurston, 87; Barrabool, Armstrong, Sergt. Thompson, Fa'hers, 86; W. Rose, Coleman, Dixon, Ross, H. Ross, 0. Bird, 85 ; Paralow, Burr, Morrison, Howie, Aiken, 84 ; Smith, Lieut. Bennett, Hill, 83 ; Frearson, Clouston, Mogridge, Sinclair, 83; Strange, Laird, 81; D. Hood, Bowlings, 80; Black, Fox, McLean, Johnston, 78 ; Bennett, Robinson, Mapp, 77; McCrodie, 76 ; Clarke, H Wimsett, M. J. Moore, 75 ; D. Smith, 74; J. Thurston, 72 ; Lees, 63 ; Currie, 50. Okey, of Taranaki, took tho champion rifle belt, with 279 points, Purnell, (Wangt ■ nui) with 272, was second, and Rogers (Blenheim), 267 third. The carbine champion bolt was won by Thomas (Thames), with a score? of 268; Somerville (Wanganui),263 second; Woolley, 262, third; Wimsett (Nelson) 262, fourth.