NEW ZEALAND, RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1563, 10 March 1887, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND, RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

Chbistchprch, March 7. To fill in the afternoon, the annual match among the staff officers and the representatives of the Press on the ground was fired. There were three prizes, one of £3, and two of £1 each, and the entries wore 13. The conditions were 30 shots at the 200 yards range. The winner was Mr E, Hardcastle, with a score of 40 out of the possible 50. Major Ross was second with 39, and Mr O. M. Gray third with 38. March 8. The Union Company's Cup, and a Rifla presented by Colonel TiHdale, of Birmingham, was won by Captain Little, of Auckland. The Rifle Championship resulted as followB: Capt. White, Gordon Rifles, Auckland, (475 points), Rifle Champion Belt, £4G, and sold Btar; Capt. Little, N.Z.R.A. silver star and £2O; Vol. Johnston, N.Z.R.A. Bilver star and £lO ; Lieut. Oakey, £7 10s ; Capt. Rogers, £2 10s; Sergt. Kempshell, Sergt. McKenzie, Capt. Furnell, Sergt. Guy, Temuka Rifles, (445 points); and Vol. France (444 points). Thsse take the N.Z.R.A Badge. ' Sergt." Guy aa one of the highest scorers in the final stage of the Rifle Championship takes £2. 1 The Carbine Championship resulted ae follows :—Gunner McCorkindale, Oamaru Artillery (478 points), Carbine Champion Belt, gold star, and £4O; Sergt, Parslow, N.Z.R.A. gold star and £2O; Gunner Webster, silver star, and £10J; GuDner Howe, £7los; Seaman Thorburn, £2 10s; Gunner Drunamend, Seaman Begg, Seaman Weir, Corpl, Williams, and Trooper W. J. Wait (432 points). Thesw take the N.Z.R.A. badge. The Rifle team match was won by the Gordon Bifleß (Auckland); Victoria Rifles (Auckland), being second ; Thames Bangers, third; Bunedin City Guards, fourth ; Wanganui City Rifles, fifth ; and Blenheim Rifles, sixth. The Carbine match resulted as follows : -Auckland Artillery first (£20); Wellington Artillery, second (£10); Port Chalmers Artillery third (£7.) The Northern contingent left for Wellington in the Hinemoa shortly after 10 o'clock.

A Petition to the Queen. —An Irish lady (says Truth) has petitioned the Queen under somewhat peculiar circumstances. The petitioner had an uncle named Alexander Ferdinand Fetrie, who entered the army in 1870, serving in the 79th Regiment. He sold out in 1811, and died in 1844, at the age of eightyeight years. He " willed " all his property, amounting in cash to about £20,000, to the Queen. His neice, who was left a widow in 1855 with eight daughters and one son, has ever since his death been ekeing out an existence by the precarious profession of keeping a private school, but this occupation by reason of her great and of her growing blindness, she has had to relinquish. Consequently, the prayer of the petition seeks that her case and that of he' daughters may be equitably entertained by Her Majesty, who more than thirty years ago, received the whole of their aucestor'B estate as a bequest. Here is, indeed, a chance for the Quoen to celebrate her Jubilee.

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