RIFLE MATCH.
A match was fired on Saturday between eleven men of the E Battery of Artillery and eleven men of the Kowai Rifle Club, on the range of the latter, at Sefton. The weather was all that could be desired. There was very little sun, with a light south-west breeze, consequently, as will be seen by the subjoined, good scoring was the order of the day. The Artillery were most hospitably entertained by the members of the Kowai Club, who had studied everything that could be conducive to the the comfort of their visitors. After a good dinner had been done justice to, Mr Poster, the president of the Kowai Club, called for three cheers for the Artillery, who, he considered, had fought a very determined uphill battle. He hoped soon to be able to arrange a triangular match between the Kaiapoi Rifles, the Artillery, and the Kowai Rifle Club, to be fired on the Kaiapoi range. Lieut. Hill, on responding, said that although his team had been beaten by sixty-eight points, he did not feel disgraced, as they had had to fire against really first-class shots. He then called upon his “ boys ” to return the compliment, which was given with all the strength of lungs that the gunners possessed. Mr Harry McAlpine, with his drag and four-in-hand, drove the team to the°range and back in a remarkably short time. The following are the scores : Kowai.
200 300 400 500 yds yds yds yds T1 J. Cameron 17 15 19 16 67 W. Powel 15 16 17 16 64 M. McKay ... 14 18 16 14 62 J. B. Hunter ... 17 15 16 12 60 J. W. Pate ... 16 1-4 14 14 58 M. Lister 18 14 18 8 58 J. Stewart 16 11 17 13 57 W. Hunter 17 12 14 14 57 E. Poster 15 9 16 7 47 T. Croft 15 11 10 7 43 W. Brock IS 9 10 5 42 Total 615 E Battery. 200 300 400 500 yds yds yds yds T1 Lieut. Hill 18 14 15 17 64 Q.-M.S. Sinclair 17 14 17 11 59 Sergeant Lusk 12 13 16 16 57 Corporal Dowall 12 13 14 16 55 S.M. Duncan ... 12 13 18 11 54 Gnr. Attwood... 16 12 13 12 53 Gnr. Booth 16 15 15 8 51 Bombr. Lusk ... 13 10 14 13 50 Gnr. McGeachie 16 14 9 5 44 Gnr. Jeffries ... 12 12 11 0 35 Gnr. Marsdcn... 5 6 11 3 25 Total 547
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2695, 27 November 1882, Page 3
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