VOLUNTEERING.
INTERNATIONAL RIFLE MATCH. On Saturday the competitors met at the Mount Eden liillc Range to fire this match. The conditions were : Eight men a-side ; ranges, 200, fiOO, and (500 yards ; seven shots each range ; 200 yards, standing, eight inch bull’s-eye ; fiOO and (100 yards, any position, target six feet by six. Tbe day was gloomy, with a strong N.E. wind blowing, which afterwards increased into very nearly a gale, and brought heavy rain with it. ° 0 0 At GOO yards it was with difficulty that anything whatever could lie seen of the butts, for the rain fell in torrents, and at last tbe light became so bad that, although bits were known to lie made, it was impossible to tell whether any signal was up or not ; and it was agreed to finish tbe match on a future day. In the number oi rounds tired at the GOO yards range, tbe English succeeded in drawing three points more ahead, and the scores stand at—English, 315; Irish, 284 ; and Scottish, 280; thus leaving to tbe two last a struggle for second place.— X. Z. Herald.
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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 120, 27 February 1872, Page 3
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185VOLUNTEERING. Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 120, 27 February 1872, Page 3
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