FEATHERSTON NOTES.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) Monday. The Annie Brandt Comedy Company gave their initial performance in , St. George's Hall on Saturday evening, pi vine " He would be a Soldier," then an olio, and finishing up with a nigger farce. There was a very fuir and appreciative audience. Of course, the smallness of Ibe Hall is a great 'drawback, thero only being room for inch a small stage, thereby putting the actors at a double disadvantage, namely that of being so near tho back of the Hall and yet being so near the audience, Itie Cumpany had intended'giving a sacred concert on Sunday night after church, but as the weather became so rough they had to abandon the idea,
The F.D, JRifie Club bold a competition for prizes at the Kaiwaiwai Kango last Saturday, which was attended by 15 memters, who were divided into two classes, who fired two matches each, witli tho following ronulta t Ist class.— Ist match—,lo shots at ' 500 yards.—W. Benton Ist, 45,1G5; O.E, Bidwill 2nd, 41,10s; W, Feast 3rd, 41, Gs Gd. Ist class.—2nd match.—7 shots ut 500 and 600 yards.—C, R, Bidwill Ist, 48,18s 6d; W. Benton 2nd, 47, 1 10a, T. Benton 3rd, 42, Gs Gd. 2nd class,—lst mnlch.-lO shots at 500 yards.—Yuio Ist, 40, 20a; J. Parker 2nd, 40, 12s j S. Feast, Brd, 39,75; W. barker, 4th, 85,8s 6d.
2nd class,-2nd malcli.—lo shots at COO yards.—W, Parker Ist, 26, 17b 6d ; S. Feast 2nd, 23,125; O. Bolin, 3id, 23,75; Jas Tocker 4lh, 22,3s 63. The prizes were presented by tho following MilkmenO.E. Bidwill lb, 0. Phillips 20s, H, S, Izard, 103, W. Benton ss, with an entrance fee of 2s fid for each match. The prizes for the previous competition wore also presented, W. Benton taking W, E, Bidwill's trophy, a furnished shooting bag, valued at three guineas, be having an aggregate of 279; W. Feast 2nd, J. Martin's trophy, valued 355, 259; I'. Benton Brd, E, H.,Quick's prize 20s, 252 ; 0. Bolin 4th, T. Benton's prize, 282 ; W, Patker 6th, 221; 60 rounds of ammunition!
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 471, 24 April 1894, Page 2
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365FEATHERSTON NOTES. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 471, 24 April 1894, Page 2
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