N.Z. Rifle Association Meeting.

Manawatu Herald, 7 March 1899, Page 3

N.Z. Rifle Association Meeting.

» Bandmaster King, who has just won Ihe Belt at the championship m eting at Wangunui made hia first appearance at the N.Z.B.A. meetings in 1888 at Oaraaru. He did not attend the next two meeting?, but has been at all the rest. He was one of the Zealand team that went home to Bftley in 1897, where be finished 17»h in the Grand Aggregate which is equivalent to New Zealand's Championship; and obtained the bropz3 medal of the Association. At the pome mealing he tied for geoond place, a point behind the. win* l v > ncr, in the Corporation Prizp, which *" was open to Colonial Volunteers only, and obtained a badge and a high prize in the Ht George's Cr mpetition a match nest in imporfcnnce to the Queen's Priza. The to<al amount of King's winnings at Bisley was» £48, in addition to trophic. In Sydney lapt October, at thp N.S "W. Association Meeting, hp won H e > M nnin» Match. m«Mng 67 nin of 70 at 700 and 800 yanK beeves seeming niber priz •■*. H» bno byen 0 onnstetenfc shot, at, N w 7> aland meeting?, invariah'v -being *»> onpst the first twitvv. Hp wa=> third fit N »p ; pr in 1891. sixth Rt Auckland in 1897. and plpv<n'h on two nth'-r occasion?. Ho has w^n ibp RifiV Cballpnjyn Cup, me of the biff priz iS > at ibp N.Z.B A. nv-piinc c «wv-p — in + 1892 and 1895; thr N- w Z aland Nrttivpp' Association twic 1897 and 189^ ; and the Uni^n Company's Cnp this year. In 1898 K n<? and B>'6 (Auckland) Ipd a)">rnaHv dur. Ing thp WP'k f^r thp B««l». bnt the former's rifle went wrong in the last niAtrh, and bp thf-r^by lot a good chance of finishing wpl' up.