FEDERAL RIFLE MEETING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8866, 29 October 1907, Page 5

FEDERAL RIFLE MEETING.

THE EMPIRE MATCH. Received October 28, 5.52 p.m. SYDNEY, October 28. The position of the teams on the completion of the first two ranges of the Empire Match were as follow: — Australia 746 Britain 737 New Zealand 726 Received October 28, 6.39 p.m. SYDNEY, October 28. At the completion of the third range of the Empire Match the scores were: —■ Australia 1,108 Britain 1,077 New Zealand 1,077 The remaining ranges will be fired to-morrow. Received October 28, 9.53 p.m. SYDNEY, October 28. The weather was fine, and there was a good light for the Empire Match. The members of the New Zealand team fired very consistently. The Britishers lost considerably through putting twelve shots on the wrong target—nine at the 500 yards range and three at the 600 yards range. The scores at the different ranges were: — 200 Yds. SOOYds. 600 Yds. Australia 366 380 362 Britain 368 369 340 New Zealand 363 363 351 Totals - Australia 1,108 Great Britain 1,077 New Zealand... ... 1,077 The individual scores of the New Zealanders were : 200 500 610 Yds. Yds. Yds. Tl. Craw 48 43 44 135 Mills 46 48 45 139 Ayson 46 47 43 136 A, Ballinger 46 44 45 135 Purnell 45 46 43 134 Masefield 44 48 43 135 Wilkie 44 42 44 130 Cameron 44 45 44 — 133 Totals 363 363 351—1077 Received October 29, 12.13 a.m. SYDNEY, October .28. The Britishers lost 12 points through hittiDg the wrong targets, not 12 shots on the wrong ones. Major Varley (Britisher) made 10 bulls at the 500 yds range.