VOLUNTEER NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 29, 4 February 1902, Page 2

VOLUNTEER NEWS.

THE NEW ZEALAND DKFENOK FORGES RIFLE ASSOCIATION MEETING. j ! The programme of the first cham- \ ! pionship rifle meeting under the ! uuspices of the Government, commeuc- > 1 in» on Thursday, 27th February, is ' : published, and particulars of the i various matclw are as follows: No. 1.-Nelson Match: 200, 500, ' and 600 yards; seven shots at eaob. Thirty-three prizes of a total value of , £56. No. 2.-Hawke'B Bay Match; 500 and 600 yards; ten shots at each. Thirty-three prizes totalling £56. No. 3.—Marlborough Match ; 300 yards; seven shots. Target, head and . shoulders, any military position allowed; 5 t'jiiat expos-d for f«.-ur seconds for .I. »«;>. slit. Two points for each •■ li;t on tliH Thir y-two prizes o- l!ir;g£so. I N... 4.—Otago Mutch; 700 yardo; ' I en sh Thirty-two prizes totnliioc : I £SO. No. 5. -W.-nganui Match; 300,500,' . and 700 yards; seven shots at each, j Thirty-three priz°s totalling £56. '• No. 6.—Cover Match; 200 yards; B seven shots. Targets, head anfi shoii'de' era, stationary. Competitors will b \ ■- behind cover. Time allowed, thee e seconds, during which the competitor must rise, fire, and get down t-ehirj'l k cover again, coming to tha "R-ad.," l " waging for next signal. Two pnint< ,j allowed for each hit oq tha target. Tbe « time will be taken from the whistle to s, fire, till the second whistle. A eom- % petitor firing after the second whistle * will forfeit two points. Thirty-two r I prizes totalling £SO. A -NT., 7 rihnfatohntvh Mafcoh ■ RCM

No. 7.—Uhnsichurch Match; 600 ■ yard*; ten shots. Thirty-two prizes i totalling £SO. \ ' No. 8. - Wellington Match; 500,600, \ ! and 700 yards ; a v.>n sho' s at eaoh.!, Thirty-tbree prizis totalling £56. i No. 9.—Auckland Match. Open to - the 100 highest aggregate ,Bearers in:' matches 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8; 500, 600, and 700 yards; Bfvtn'j shots at; each. Twenty-fc.ur prizes 'totalling: £42. / |' No. 10,—Last Try; open' to all com-) patitors who have not won more than j £5 in prizes in any of the foregoing j matches; 500 yards; ten shota. Thirty-1 two prizes totalling £SO. ,' . ,| No. 11.—Nursery Match'; open only | to members who have neverwon a.prize' or prizes of over £2 at any New Z,en- j land Rifle Association Meeting, n"nd I whose winnings do not eteceed £5 i>t the meating; 500 yards 3 ten shot*.. Thirty-fiva prizes totalling! £39. No. 12.—The Tyro ; orfwn to members who have never wop a prizs at any meeting of the Rifle Association; 500 yards; ten shot?. Pojurtean prizes totalling £'6i. j No. 13.—Ohampion the fifty highest aggragiMe scorers in matches, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,1 8, and 9, and who belong solely to the: New Zeahnd Defence Forces as defined in clause 1, subsection (a), of the regulations ; 700 yirds; ten shots. The] score made in this match will be added! to the scores made in m-itches 2, 3, 4 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, and the highest gland aggregate scorer wll be the champion rifle shot of New Zealand for the/ year 1902, and the winner of the Ohampion Rifle Belt,/ gold medal given by tie Hon. the De 1 fence Minister, and £35; second, silveii star and £2O; third, silver star and j £ls; fourth, silver stfar and £10; siij prizes of £5 each. j , No. 14. -Companies' Team Match/; open to teams of fife men from anL Volunteer or Qadet £)orps, Permanent Militia, and from afly Defence Itf&; 9 Club in New Zaalanci : Two or mot e teams can enter froni any corps; 20i) ) 500, and, 600 yards*; seven shots |jt each dist»cc , light p-izss totalling £7O. ! No. 15.~Vol!ey-fja^£atca; opi n to 10 volunteers vincial Volunteer Permanent Militia, monHKr loco (.

mander ot not less Distance, 600 and I bor of volleys, seven Position, prone. fCwo may enter from any 45 seconds from the order or to commence at each distance. MagHnes charged beforehand, Five prizeswtalling \ r . No. 16. - Colonial Ammunition Company's Match ; Field-fiVing— Challenge Oup; open to 10/ volunteers from) any Battery, Corps, op Com pan*; distances, open fire at abiut 900 yaroh and advance to 590; pgure 6ft., disappearing; 10 rounds', independent firing, f Four prizes tor\nj n g .£42, and Colonial Ammunition jCampmy's Cup, | J No. 17. Smth. African Match; ranges 500 and 600 yards ; 10 shpts at each range; op<m only to our Ne* Zealand men who ' have served infeouth Africa. Four prizes totalling .£ls, No. 18.—-Extra Match; od en t 0 Volunteers and Cadets\only. Distance 300 yards; nvjmbr of Wounds, ; target, head and shoulders; magazine, independent firing. Tirhe, 45 Seconds, from word tignal fto commence. Twenty prizes! totalling .£3l. The last previous meeting under Government control was held at Hokitika in 1877. In 1878 there was n| meeting, and the New Zealand liifJß Association was; then inaugurated and has conducted the fixture up till lfljoi. Major-Gefieral Babingtoni Commandant of ,tbe Forces, was! a passenger by the souifch mill train/on Monday morning. I The follrjwing handicaps haveb'en declared foa- the Clock Cotapejtition on Thursday :J-Ceptain Okey, Lieutenant Hooker, dolour-Sergeant Okey scr., Corporal Airrnitage 3, PrJvataßqgerg Sf-rgeant (Lister 7, Serljearit Smith) Private tyicqn IQ, Bugler Hopkins, Private Morgan 12, rtmnndeji- of company 15. j j [ The following rehandicfapa for class prizes at<? made:— Sfcojnd class Private Rogers scr., Private Morgan, 4, Private Rowan 6, rejmaikder 10; third class - all scratch, ! f The Noln-Oorami'sioned Offloars Ciub meet' on! Wednesday (svenTng, when Sergmntj Armitaga wilf give a Icclure on" Outers's." I J I Auckland) F.bxuary 3. , Captain J. Reid, district adjutant, ie to have) th> anting o'ttimaud of the Au .lartd Volunteer Wis' ; C 6 during the a'"B>pco ot Colonel Dnvis s j n South Africa. I j