Volunteer Notes.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 234, 26 July 1902, Page 3

Volunteer Notes.

(by advance guakd.)

A parade of the Studhoime Mounted Rifles will be held this afternoon at the drillshed at 2 p.m. An inspection parade of the Waimate Rifles was held on Wednesday evening; presentCaptain Barclay., • Lieutenants Hurst and Jackson, and 25 noncoms and men. Sergeant-Major Jones was also present. The whole of: the evening was devoted to musketry and fire discipline. One candidate was elected a member of the corps. A district order was received drawing attention to the necessity of keeping the rifles, clean, as in the event of any rine being returned as rusty it will have to be returned to store and a new barrel fitted, the cost which is to bo charged to the corps. Captain Barclay has issued au order stating that any rifle found to be damaged through negligence will have to be repaired at tho cost of the defaulter. Thia is a step in the right direction, as no corps should be called on to pay for tho rifle of any member who j is so negligent as to allow it to g«t I rusty,

Volunteers throughout New Zealand are under the impression that at 200 yards all Bisl«y shootiLg is from the standing position and at 500 from the knee. This is not so. Up to 50!) yards the position is prone (including 20.) yards) ; beyond 500, any position. But the lujasurement of the target values are altered. The bull's eye at 200 yards is seven inches, the inner is 14 inches in diameter, the magpie 21 inches, and the outer the remainder of the target. At 500 and GOO yards the bull is 20 inches in diameter, inner 30 inches, magpie -10, and outer 'remainder of the target. New Zoalanders will see that a magpie at 200 yaads is easily got, also an outer at 500 or GOO yards. The slings on the rifles are allowed in any military way, and generally speaking the conditions are favourable to the Maorilanders,

\%ho were delighted when they found that standing and kneeling at 200 and 500 yards was not compulsory. The following is a list of New Zealand shooting men at Bisle.): —

Colonel Sommerville (in charge), Captain Nelson, Woodville : Lieutenant Okey, Taranaki ; Bandmaster Kint?, Oamaru ; Private Winslade, Wanganui ; Private Mead, Wellington ; Piilleman Hyde, Opaki ; Loveda}', G. and W., Woodville; J. G. Wilson, Woodville ; W. 11. Ballinger, Wellington ; H. Hawthorne, Wellington ; McGregor, Oamaru ; Bunting, Palmerston North ; J. Wilson, Petone. Riflemen Henry and Tumbull, Opaki, are on their way here, a lid may arrive any day.