Rifle Shooting.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 148, 4 January 1902, Page 3

Rifle Shooting.

On New Year’s Day the Waimate fired a match with the Christchurch City Rifles and won by 66 points. Loth foams used the now rifles, and good scores were put up, the Waimate team making the splendid average of 80.4. The 34 at 600 yards put on by Captain Foster will likely he the record for that rp-nge for acme lime. Lance-Corporal Nicol’s 34 at 500 was also excellent, and 33 at each of 300 and 500 yards scored by Lieutenant Hurst wore also very good. Too following are the scores V/ABLATE RIFLES. 300 500 600

252 289 257 798

yds. . yds. yds. TI. Lieutenant Hurst ... 33 33 30 96 Lance-Corporal Nicol 23 31 31 91 Lance-Corporal Wilson31 23 31 90 Col.-Crm. Stevenson 29 80 30 89 Sergeant Minos 32 28 27 87 Lieut'jnant Jackson 27 23 30 85 Private IVilco , 28 23 29 85 Sergeant 11 Smith ... , 28 29 28 85 Sergeant J. Smith ... 27 28 25 80 Sergeant Sanders ... 25 28 23 76 286 294 284 864 CHRISTCHURCH CITY EIFLES. Sergeant Trebilcock 32 83 28 93 Corporal Dodd 81 31 25 87 Sergeant Jackson ... , 20 28 ‘32 86 Lance-Corporal Thorn 28 30 27 85 Captain Foster . 22 28 34 84 Private Bradley . 29 29 24 82 Private Oliver , 27 30 22 79 Sergeant Dodd . 19 31 28 78 Private Harry . 21 26 23 70 Private Brown . 17 23 14 54