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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 661, 4 March 1869, Page 1

Government Advertisements. ULES AND REGULATIONS i for the GOVERNMENT PRIZE FIRING, NORTH ISLAND, 1869. [Extract from the New Zealand Gazette of the 13th January, 1869.] Colonial Defence Office, Wellington, 11th January, 1869. The following Regulations arc published for general information. T. M. Haultain. Regulations eor Prize Firing in the Noßin Island, fob the Year 1869. One-half the money voted by the General Assembly for Prize Firing (viz £500), will be divided amongst the districts named below under the following regulations : Districts. # # * # W 4. Poverty Bay and Wairoa 5. Napier 1. Each district will receive a Bum of money to be fired for in proportion to the number of Volunteers, Cadets, and Constabulary that are enrolled, und of Militiamen that are armed on the Ist February, 1869; and Officers commanding are to send to the Defence Office, as soon as possible after that date, Returns showing the number of men they are entitled to reckon under the above heads. 2. All Officers of the Colonial Forces, all persons enrolled in the Militia or Armed Constabulary, and all members of Volunteer or Cadet Corps are eligible to become competitors for the prizes. 3. The Officer commanding each District will fix a day or days, in the months of March or April, for the competitive firing to take place. Where two or more places are named as one district, the senior officer will make the necessary arrange ments for the whole. 4. Tho firing may take place at one or move places within the district, at the discretion of the Commanding Officer. 5. In each district a prize of £lO, or a Mont Storm carbine of that value, and two prizes of £7 and £5 respectively, will be given to the three competitors who make the highest scores, not being less than 35. 6. The remainder of the money apportioned to the district, will be divided, according to their score, amongst all those (winners of the prizes included) who make a greater number of marks than*3s at the competitive firing. No competitor, howevtr, is to receive on this account a greater sum than £5 ; but should there be a surplus undistributed in any district, it will be available to complete deficiencies, if any, in other places. 7. Competitors will fire at ranges of 400, 500, and 603 yards (Cadets at 200, 250, and 300 yard.-); five shots at each range, without artificial rest, any position. Highest possible score, 60 marks, fciize of the° targets, 6x6 feet ; bull's eye, 2 feet; centre, 4 feet. 8. Ties shall be decided as follows: — (1.) By the score made at the longest distance. (2.) If still a tie by the score made at tho two longest distances. (3.) If still a tie, then by Wimbledon Regulations, 1866, section 13. 9. The highest scorer above forty marks (not being a Cadet) in each Province will receive the medal lor the Province. General Rules to he observed in firing for the General Government Prizes. 10. The long or medium Enfield rifle, the Lancaster rifle, and tho breech or muzzle loading carbine, as issued by the General or Provincial Governments, must alone be used. Competitors using the carbine at the 400, 500, and 6uo yard ranges, will be allowed one mark at the first range, two marks at the second, and three marks at third range. 11. The minimum pull of the trigger to be six pounds. 12 Ammunition will be provided by the Government. 13. The senior officer on the ground may direct the examination of the arms used by competitors, at any time before, during, or after the firing; and should any arm be found to have been tampered with, or the pull of trigger to be below the minimum, the competitor using such arm will be disqualified, and his score disallowed. 14. in the scoring, the value of shots will be—Bull's eye, 4; centre, 3; outer, 2. 15. The firing for Government Prizes should be superintended, if possible, by a Field Officer; and in the absence of any Field Otlicer, there must be (exclusive of any Medical Officer) at least two Commissioned Officers on the ground. 16. A list, giving each competitor a number only, will be given to the ollicer and marker; another list will be made out with each competitor's name and corresponding number on it, to be kept by the senior officer stationed at the spot where the competitors fire from. 17. The senior officer present will appoint one person to call the names of competitors at the place of firing, and another to r the target.