CARTERTON RIFLE VOLUNTEERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1131, 21 July 1882, Page 3

CARTERTON RIFLE VOLUNTEERS.

■■ lm,f jowly competition for the company's chrllen K e cup wps liQtly.coni£ nl 0 " Tl,l,rß(la y- The Gnndms, at tno 200 yard's range got«good lend,.but Bubßemiaiily at ilio SCO ynrd's range l V ?jjfvV v an( * Slierin stood '!■ t h°f ), d er i the former at iho &r the wind and won eMityVl'lie day was cold, the light bad, ft south-west wind blowing across the long ranges, and the t .'.rget black as midand hardly perceptible, lwelve uiemberß competed, the top scores beinpr as under, Wimbledoii target, 2,4, Bard •■hundred yatda:—Piivato' Jai, Iteid, ■'77; Private G6odin, 64; Corporal Goodin, G4 ; Private Sherln, 58; Corporal T. lipid, 68. 'We do not ihink the score of Private Jas. Eeid at sinnh r targets has »b jet been surpassed in tlio VHlloy,. On the present membership of the corps we think the ultimate possession of the ojip lies between the two Gondhia,. Slierin, thteo Eoids, and the Into Captain * Suodgrow, An occasional fluke might bo made outside as when Color-Sergt, dampin got one leg in for the cup, biii we do not think this will affect tihri ultimate. ieversion of the cup among the septet we have named, although it may the immediate possession of it.