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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 457, 28 February 1867, Page 4

C&reernmeiLt Advertisements, i ■ EUI.ES AND REGULATIONS FOR 1 Tills. GOVERNMENT PRIZE TIRING, 1887. Colonial Defence Office, i Wellington, oth February; 1867, The followiug Rules and Regulations are published for general information. WILLIAM FITZEERBRRT, Tor the Defence Minister. Colonial Frizes. 1. The firing for the Colonial Prizes ■will take place at or near Wellington on a day to be named by the Government. 2. Competitors for the ‘ Colonial Prizes’ ■will fire at ranges of 400, SJO, and 600 yards—five shots at each range, without artificial rest, any position. Size of target 6x6, centre 4 feet, bull’s eye 2 feet. Value of points—bull’s eye 3, centre 2, outer I. Highest possible score, 60 points. 3. All officers of the Colonial Forces, any fterson sworn in and now serving as u Miitiaman, and all members of Volunteer Corps, are eligible to be chosen as competitors for the “ Colonial Prizes,” but as the number of such competitors must be very limited, the best shots will be selected from each Province or District by preliminary competitive firing, the ranges for which, number of shots, position, size of targets, and value of points, will be the same as in firing for the Colonial Prizes. 4. Each Province or District will be allowed to send one representative to Wellington for every 30 ia»n who score 20 points at the competitive firing, but no re presentulive will be recognised who does not himself score 30 points. 5. Every person wishing to bo a representative must give notice thereof, in writing, on or before tiie twenty-eighth February, to the Adjutant, who will, under directionsol the otiieer commanding the district, ap point a day or days between the Ist and 15th of March for the competitive firing, when the highest scorer or scorers (according to the number of representatives to be sent by the Province or District) will be entitled to fire at Wellington lor the Coloniui Prizes. 6. Ihe cost of a saloon cabin passage to and from Wellington (calculated at the rates charged for return ticket.-) will be allowed to the competitors, together with the sum of ten shillings a day to each nonresident during his unavoidable detention at Wellington.

District Prizes. 7. Officers Commanding Districts will ( aj i-cint the times and places for the firing for Uie District Prizes. Every intending competitor must give notice in writing of his intention to the Adjutant of the permanent stall on or before the twentyeighth February nest. 8. Competitors for the District Prizes , will fire at ranges of 30 J, 4UO, and 500 ( yards —five shots at each range, without , artificial rest, any position ; size of target snd value of points same as for the Colo- | nial Prizes. 9. No Prizes will bo given for which I there arc not at least twenty competitors, i 10. No person will be allowed to com- ' pete tor more than one set of District Prizes. | General Rules to he observed in firing for loth the Colonial and District Prizes, j 11. The long or medium Enfield rifle, 1 the Lancaster rifle, and the breech or muzzle loading carbine, as issued by the General or Provincial Governments, must 1 alone be used, and attention is particularly called to the notice from the Government Gazette printed at the foot, as the order therein laid down will bo strictly enforced. 12. Ammunition will be provided by the Government. 13. One sighting shot at each range will be allowed. 14. No prizes whatever will be given in any case for a less score than 20 points.| 15. Each competitor will fire his whole number of shots in the same day, unless the weather turns out unfavorable, when the senior officer present may at any time at his discretion postpone the firing until the next favorable opportunity. 16. A list, giving each competitor a number only, will be given to the officer and marker ; another list will be made out with each competitor’s name and corresponding number ou it, to be kept by the senior officer stationed at the spot where the competitors fire from. 17. Should any competitor absent himself when his turn comes to fire, he is to forfeit his chance, and a shot is to bo fired in tbe air (which the marker will score as a miss), in order to tmn the numbers on the lists correct. 18. All disputed points are to be decided by the senior officer present, whose decision will be final. 19. Ties will fire one shot at the longest range until the best shot be returned. 20. In tbe scoring one point will be added to each hit. 21. Competitors will have the benefit of sny shot on the ring. 22. Any shots which touch the ground before hitting the target (ricochets) are to vuC vt/ujtuu IOT £Bl&S£B' 23. All hits will count according to where the bullet “first” strikes the tar* pu