N.Z. RIFLE ASSOCIATION MEETING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 63, 6 March 1902, Page 3

N.Z. RIFLE ASSOCIATION MEETING.

• • pes pbess ASSOCIATION. Tbssmhah, Marcn 5. Shooting started at eight o'clock •the weather being again fine. A .flteady wind wes blowing up the range ;*rom left to right. The best shooting of the meeting was recorded this morning', then being ten possibles at the SOO, two at 600, and two at 700, while «evewl just missed the toasible at 7qo yards. Auckland Match, 500, 600 and 70C ; seven shots.—Drummond, Danneyttke, and the Hebson Oup 98' Kaitan>rata, X 5, 98; KtW Ownarn, Shaw Ohinemuri, 97, X 3 «ach; G. Hyde Opaki, Turrer WelHngtoo, Maingay Pi*ko, D,j«egan Gow 95,.and Wiwlade Wanganui 94 -£2"lush. Fourteea with toorae from S* to 90 receive £1 each. Welch, Opaki, wins theKynock Cup for the mos* points in the two rapidity matches. J In tfae last Try Match at 500 yards there wes some remarkable shootina, Ohing, of Nelson, and three others put <w ten bulls each. Firing off the tie three *hoto>, he pnt on three snore, and' got one for a fighter which made 14 consecL'tiva bulls eye?. At 2.30, sixteen teams paraded for -Oie volley firing match—Wellineton Bfle Battalion £l2 and First ChalHenge Shield 336, Auckland £lO, 313 • ■Wellington Rifles No 2, £5, 295"Wanganui No 2 £5, 286; 'North 'Canterbury No 2 £5, 269. Other were Hawke's Bay 255, Nelson .254, Canterbury 253, Otago 247, Taraaaki 246, Auckland ard Canterbury Engineers 237 each, North Canterbury 220, Wanganui No 2 and South Canterfcnry 192 each , After this maNm the Teams Field Firing Match was commenced, and was watched with treat interest, both by the visitors and ■competitors. The Premier and General Babington arrJYed at 4.30, and during the progress of the match addrw S ed the competitors on their good shootins He slso told them a team would be sent toßisley. . The Mowing are V M Field-firing Msteb, open , £™£ teen from any battali oß corps or comvallce to M;~t> M np,,, w „ . pendent firiTag._Weni ng r TO Ri(ioßat . fantry No . l, xi 0) 185 . Qta ' ln f»nr>y No 1, £5, 184. Other Pcores *«re: Taranaki 181; North Canterbury Infantry No. 2,176- Nel*m, 173 ; Hawkrfs'Bav and Welling ton B«tta!ion No. 2,165 each; Oan»ertwiry. Jrgiifeers, 160; Sooth Canterbury, 159 ; Wangann', 148 ; North Canterbury Mounted, 137; and Wanganui No. 2,96. To-morrow tbe shoo'ing commences with the Companies' Team Match, for which 15 have entered. Tbe meeting closes' to-morrow. Tbe Council of, tho TaranakiPro ▼mcial Pifle Association has fixed the first annual meeting for the 19th and 20th March, «f. Stra»ford. Entries •close on the 12th, at 8 p.m. The benefit of such meetings as this cannot he frer estimated, and all riflemen throughout the province should make e, point of forwarding its success.