RIFLE SHOOTING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7760, 11 March 1905, Page 2

RIFLE SHOOTING

THE TKENTHAM MUI2TINC. L (I'er I'rcM Association.) I TKISNTHAM, March JO. J The meeting will not close liefore to-morrow morning. < I The Colonial Company's silver car- 'i Itridge ]«ncil case for the highest in- '< 'dividual score in the 'J jTeums Match was won by Henry i '(Opaki). i I l'rizc IJst of Kxtra Mutch. 1(00 i yurds, seven shots IHsheli (TnraIta), £l, 34 ; (1. \\. Vennell (T« Whajrnu), £3, 3t ; I'. Tuylor (Tnrannkj), '| £2, 311 ' Hales l Aucklandil'J, 33. ; iThirty-four received XI each, with scores varying frojii 32 to 28. i i j.tU'f. The meeting was continued to-day, and the last individual matches for volunteers were fired. The Volunteer A. Mutch, SOfi und tiOO yards, ten sliols, and the 006 | and KKX) yurds e.vtru mulches, seven shots both, were llrud simultaneously,. At the 500 yards, Ktorkey, l>unodin, made the possible (.">0;, ami federal 4!)'s were also made. At the 900 yurds <J. \V. Vennell, Te Wliarail, and liiKchell, 'l'arata, each scored one short of the possible, and the latter secured first pi nee by a count- 1 ' back. The 1000 yards shooting was not so good as on the previous 1 long ranges, t% marksmen not < having got in touch with these i ranges. I Volunteer Match, 500 and 600 yards, ten shots.—Whiteley, Kuin- I ■ I'oi, £5, 02 ; l'arker, Feildlnjr, £l, ' "01 ; Causley, Thames, £3, 80; I Sumlford, Uhristchurch, £3 rt 90 • i l'aterson, Hawera ; Burlc, Mataura'; I It. M. Irvine, Nelson ; Skinner, Auckland, each £2, each 89. Twen-ty-one won £2 each. Six tyros also I won £1 each. I Extra Match, 1000 yards, seven shots. —llcllaHie, Opaki, £4, 32 ; | Halliday, Karori, £3, 31 ; Mnrette, ' Taranaki, £2, 30 ; Kdgecuiube, Wai- 1 kalo, £3, 30. Thirty-four won £l'' each. I Masefield (Kelson), Ching (Nelson), I Gillamlers (Dunodin), Kanjuharson ' s (Otagu), who on Wednesday qualMed | i for the Kynoch Cup, offered for the highest aggregate score (each man ' • making the possible In these match- ! >. cs), shot off this afternoon. Mase- 1 , field was toj)-scorer with 81, and thus I takes the cup. i