RIFLE SHOOTING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7761, 13 March 1905, Page 2

RIFLE SHOOTING

♦ Great Success of Kelson Men. (i'ei Press Association.) TKENTIIAM, March 11. The prize lists in the teems mutches are :—Volley iiring. <MHI mid iWiyd.-,, 7 volleys til each range.~ Nelson Uutlalioii, -tin, ; 'mrunuki Jlttttiilion, ISII ; (antei l.iiry Engineers, DHI! ; Wellington llitlalion, Iff.".. Itapid Airing lojrijieution. 'Jtni.wls, 10 shots each man, miiguzines must he used.— Tnrnuaki, £l«i, lii! ; Nelson. 20 ;■ Cantirburv, .18; Wellington, 17. itapid Jiiiiig ComipctKion, fiOOjds, 20 shots at ligure ttrg. t, inatja/ine. —Nelson, £lO, 32 ; Tnritnuki, 20 ; Canterbury, It); Wellington, IS. Colonial Ammunition l.'oiupuiu's Aliilch. mid liiiiig, H.Hl.wls.—Nelson, 1", Jtlo und Challenge Cup ; Tnrunaki, 12; Canterbury, 12; Wellington, 8. -Nelson sent tlrirtccn nun to llii? lUßvliiur, every one of whom got into the prize lists, ami not out- look away less than X.r>. Alihoy : s cash winnings amounted to £-13. Nelson, besides finishing up the meeting by ; w imiFujr throe out »f lour volunteer matches, took away the Champion jlViuus Challenge Shield, Hie Inion Company's Cup, Cliampion Hell, and | the Colonial Ammunition Company's tup. jWELCOME TO THE CHAMPIONS. NELSON, March 11. The rifle champion Milroy and exclinmpion Ciiiiig. us representing tile winners of the 'lVuuis Challenge Shield, were accorded u public reception on arrival from Wellington I this morning. Tho Mayor and City Councillors, a battalion of volunteers, and the Defence Jllflc Club, of I which the chuni)>ioii is u mi'tulier, took part in the reception, which was inosi enthusiastic., us in addition .to the championship the district secured u largo projiortion of prizes, in all £lll in prize money, besides the trophies being brought over by Nelson shots, no man rorurning with less than £5, A dOOD HECOIU) VOH COLONIAL MADE AMMINI'IION. The Cndct Match, KUDyds, JO bhots. was hred on Saturday afternoon, and closexl the Trentham meeting, l/'ifty-ttvo cadets, representing I Wellington, Wnngnmii, Manawatu, and Mastcrton, comjicted for prizes aggregating Uls. O'Connor, St. l'a trick's Colleger Wellington, and Cleiuunce, Wellington College, each made 37, und received £1 and lot lesjicctlvely. Tho other prize winners received os to l."is each. | Colonel Collins has wired to the Colonial Ammunition Coui)>any, congratulating it, upon the ijuaiity of tho ammunition supplied for tho meeting, stat ng that out of So.OOO | ounds fired there was not a single defective cartridge.