ANNUAL COLONIAL PRIZE FIRING.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 848, 22 October 1870, Page 2

ANNUAL COLONIAL PRIZE FIRING.

This annual contest for colonial prizes will take place at Auckland, in March 1871, and will be open to the Armed Constabulary, as well as to Militia, Volunteers, and Cadets. PEJZES. There are ten sets of prizes. The first set include five prizes—lst, (£40); 2nd do, (£sl 10s); 3rd, two prizes, (£9l 10s); 4th set, same as Ist; sth, same as 2nd; 6th, 6 prizes, (£123); 7th, same as Ist; Sch, same as 2nd ; 9th, all competitors on the winning side will be, presented with a new medium rifle, the highest scorer on the winning side will receive a silver cup value £25, the highest scorer on the losing side will receive a silver cup value £10; 10th, consolation prizes ; eight prizes, £29. The Champion Belt, Gold Medal, and the sum of £SO, to be given to the highest aggregate scorer in the Ist, 2nd, 4th,' 5 th, 6th, 7th, and Bth sets colonial prizes ~. £SO 0 0 2nd highest aggregate scorer 30 0 Q 3rd „ „ „ 20 0 0 4th „ ~ „ 15 0 0 sth „ „ „ 10 0 0 Total ~, £125 0 0 CADET PRIZES. Ist set, five prizes, (£l2 10s); 2nd, same as Ist; 3rd, three prizes, (£10). Cadet Champion Belt, Silver Medal and £lO, to be given to the highest aggregate scorer in the Ist and 3rd sets, or in 2nd and 3rd sets according to respective ages of competitors. CHOICE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The Champion for the year shall be a representative. If the Champion Belt is won two years in succession by the same person, it will become the absolute property of such winner, commencing from tne competition held in April, 1870, inclusive.

Officers and men of the Militia called out and armed either for actual service or for training and exercise, of the Volunteer Force, (and of the Armed Constabulary, who must fire with the long or medium muzzle-loading Enfield rifle), are eligibly to become Competitors for the Colonial Prizes, subject to the following rules : Each Company of Militia called out and armed either for actual service or training and exercise, each Volunteer Corps, aud each Division of the Armed Constabulary, shall, by such preliminary firing as the officer commanding the com. pany, Corps, or division may appoint, select one representative for every fifteen men or fraction of fifteen, over tea men, according to the strength on 31st October, 1870, to take part in the competitivea firing provided for in Rule 10. The names of the representatives thus selected are to be sent to the officer com* manding the district before the Ist December, 1870.

These representatives will meet at such time and place, within the month of De-. cember, as the officer commanding the district may appoint, to compete for the choice of district representatives, under the following conditions: —(a J Five shots at each range of 400, 500, 600 yards, (h). Position, 400 yards, kneeling ; 500 and 600 yards, any. (cj. A trial shot allowed at each range. (&J % The highest scorers to be district representatives, (ej. No competitor is eligible to be a representative who does not scora 40 points, ffj. The Government will provide passages, &c, (as in E-ule 12), for the three representatives who make the highest scores in their respective districts. (g). Officers commanding districts will,, on or before the sth January, 1871, send in to the Inspector of Militia and Volunteers a list of those competitors who are duly qualified, with their respective scores. DISTRICT PRIZES. The sum of ,£2OO is apportioned to the. Armed Constabulary, to be tired for under such regulations as may be issued by the Commissioner, In each district prizes to the amount of j£4G will be given, in two sets of prizes: —lst set, 6 prizes, (<£36); 2nd, 3 prizes, (£10). Tue highest scorer in the first set in each province will receive the medal for the province; and the return of such firing must be sent in to the Inspector o{ Militia and Volunteers not later than the 31st March, 1871.

ARTILLERY PRIZES, £3 will be giveu for each Armstrong

to fire on its own ground, the range to be cot less than 1.500 yards, the target 6 by 6, six rounds in all to be fired.

BBEECH-LOADING CABBINE PRIZES.

Eight prizes, rangiDg from £lO to £2, and making a total of «£lO. The highest scorer to receive a silver medal. Each corps will fire in its own district, under the same conditions and for a like number of prizes as in the breach-loading carbine prizes, except position, which will be any. There are eight prizes, ranging from .£lO to .£2, making a total of .£SO.