THE RIFLE MEETING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4976, 15 March 1895, Page 2

THE RIFLE MEETING.

(By Telegraph,—Press Association). Trentham, Thursday. Tho extent to which prize momy will be reduced, will not be decided .. until the expenso of the present meeting is estimated. At 1,30 when shooting was resumed at 500 yds the wind freshened considerably, and shooting was not up to the mark. Should timo permit effort will ba made to finnish the 500 yds (10 shots) in the Marlborough match, *' which was to betho first countin? for the belt, Thoro is a deal of grumbling at the catering. At 2.15 the majority of competitors finished the 500vds Waring (Marton), Taylor (Auckland), and Lavery (Christchnrch) being chief scorers with 33 each. • ' At this stage Greenwood, of Upper Hutt, leadß with 66;. Barns, of Karori, 65 ; Chicken, of Woodvflla, and Kirkland, of Riverton, 64 Chapman, of Wairoa, Warinfc „f Marton, Robinson, of ohristc® f <sh and Layery, of Christchnrch, 63' Hyde, of Pahiatua, and TaT | nr nf * Auckland, 62. '' 1 * At the conclusion of tho yards the other leading scows were: TLoi-pe, 33 ; Dcnghty (A uckland), ThorpeandDoughty'f. total is6s; Wilkie (Uppei;Hutt) a,nd LovetLy The Prize Money. [ ( _ ■ trentham, Friday, The Cotinci). this morning decided |to reduce the; prize money by £174, I equal to abrjut thirteen per cent, of the total.. ■■■' The principal reduction [was in tJje Wellington match from \i £l2O t<f £66, for which no money was sub scribed locally. A high nor-wester is blowing, tendering shooting difficult. Tho H&nrVe's Bay match, 10 shotsai fiOO andl 600 is proceeding, A