NEW ZEALAND RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2191, 4 March 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

[PRESS ABfIOOIATION TELEGRAM.] NELSON, March 3.

The weather was very fine to-day. Ihe arrangements for obtaining scores are very bad, and the register keepers do not send in their score sheets for a long time after the matches are over, and frequently some arc mislaid. No official lists of scores or prizes are made out for hours, and the Press reporters have the greatest difficulty in obtaining material to make up their own lists. The competitors are entirely dependant on the reporters to ascertain their positions. The sixth and seventh matches were commenced to-day, and the eighth (all members) was also commenced and two ranges completed. Tait, of Wellington, at present leads in it.

Match No. 6 —Volunteers only. 200, 400,500, and 600 yards ; seven rounds at each distance. Prizes—£lo, £9, £B, £6, £5, three of £3, two of £2, nine of £l.

The following are the prizetakers in order :—Turner (Blenheim), 107 ; McLeod (Thames), 106 ; Hoskins (Taranaki), Paynter (Nelson), 103 each; Watt, 102; Willocks (Clutha), 101; Anderson (Olutha), Sergeant Ballinger (Wellington), Hutchinson (Dunedin), each 100; Remington (Wanganui), Fowler (Waimea), Downie (Thames), Linstrom (Hokitika), Smith (Greymouth), each 99; Neil (Wanganui), Sutton (Sutton), A. Ricketts (Waimea), McKenzie (Blenheim), Nutsford, each 98. Match No. 7 (Carbine) —Volunteers only. 200, 300, 400 and 500 yards ; seven rounds nt each distance. Prizes—£lo, £9, £B, £6, £5, three of £3, two of £2, nine of £l.

The following are the prizetakers in order : —F. France (Wellington), 108; Armstrong (Thames), 103; McLean (Wanganui), A. Dixon (Wellington), Gell (Thames), each 102 ; Cameron (Thames), H. Dixon (Wellington), Harris (Thames), Davy (Wellington) Sergeant Wimsett (Nelson), each 101 ; O. France (Wellington), Gordon (Thames), each 100; Clouston (Nelson), Kel’ft” (Thames), Hood (Nelson) Payne (Thames), Laird (Wanganui), Thomas (Thames), each 97; Ingle (Wellington) 97. The following are the highest rifle aggregate* for the championship—Paynter (Nelson) 200; Hoskins (Taranaki) 198; Turner (Blenheim) 195; Sutton (Blenheim) 194 ; Hutchinson (Otago), 192; Burr (Wanganui), Hall (Waimea) each 191 ; Thorburn (Stoke), Sergeant Baflinger ( Wellington), each 189; Willooks (Otago), Private Dome (Stoke), Downie (Thames), each 188; Shaw (Wellington), Sergeant Doige,Nutsford (Wanganui), McDonald (Wanganui), each 187; Smith (Greymouth), McKenzie (Blenheim), Foster (Wanganui), Dingle (Taranaki), Howell (Taranaki), Linstrom (Hokitika), each 186 ; Rogers (Blenheim), Cooper (Auckland), Hassing (Oamarn), each 185; Remington (Wanganui), Thomas (Thames), Anderson (Olutha), Weir (Thames), each 184 ; Loveridge (Taranaki), Waddle (Nelson), Rowlings (Nelson), Gray (Nelson), Wratt (Waimea), each 183 ; Hughes (Wanganui),Griffiths (Blenheim) .Wooley (Auckland), Ellis (Nelson), Fowler (Waimer) A. Ballinger, (Wellington), each 182; Neill (Wanganui), Ricketts (Waimea), each 181 ; Hunter (Waimea), Bannister (Wellington), Mathieson (Bruce), F. Oakey (Taranaki), Purnell (Wanganui), Grossman (Nelson), Tait (Wellington), each 180. The highest carbine aggregates are :—Armstrong (Thames), 202 ; F. Franco (Wellington), 202; Cameron (Thames), H. Dixon (Wellington), Harris (Thames), each 199 ; Mcijean (Wanganui), 197; A. Dixon, 195 ; Davy (Wellington), Ingle (Wellington), Thomas (Thames), each 194; O. Franca (Wellington), Gordon (Thames), each 193 ; 8.-nnett (Wellington), Gell (Thames), each 192 ; Olouston (Nelson), Lumsdan (Auckland), Payne (Auckland), each 191; Hood (Nelson), Laird (Wanganui),Thomson (Dunedin), Sergeant Wimsett (Nelson), each 190 ; Tandy (Wellington), Wisdom (Wanganui), each 188 ; Smith, J. (Nelson), 187 ; Thompson (Port Chalmers), 185. The only remaining match for the rifle championship is the ninth —ten shots at 200 and 500 yards respectively, and for tho carbino championship, tho tenth match, at 200 and 400 yards, ten shots at each range. These will be fired on Saturday.