COLONIAL PRIZE FIRING.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 61, 11 March 1873, Page 2

COLONIAL PRIZE FIRING.

This Day. Tbe first event in the programme for to-day was the Skirmishing Match, , for which, the first signal was drawn up in skirmishing order at a little after 9 o'clock in the neighborhood of the 200 yards' range, where they fired for two minutes, retired about 50 yards, fired again for two minutes, and then advanced about 100 yards, where they fired until the ten minutes allowed by the regulations were completed. The following were the scores made. Skikmishing- Match. Target 6 x 2 'feet, centre 2 feet across. Competitors "will fall iri^as skirmishers in -extended order, any position. le*. target being opposite to each at an unknown distance. .Tbey, will fire.; at such distances on sound' of bugle,' advancing or retiring as may be directed b*fc word of command. Atter ..ten minutes, firing will cease when cqmpetitors will advance with the officer in command sand; examine ;tKeir : y target^ 'Firißt' prize £12; second £9; thirdj£B; foiiirtti'£7r fifth £5; sixth •£4}!:aeventht£S^i:k^tH T k2^7 ;^:: r .

By Electric Telegraph. All Comers' Match. Range, 200 yards. Seven Rounds. 85 Competitors. Many different kinds of Rifles used : — Ingram, Henry, Rigby, Martini, Westley Richards, -Kerr, and Whitworth. This match will not be over till late. To-morrow, All Comers, at 500 and 600 yards; . also, match at slate-colored targets.

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