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Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxix, Issue 7265, 12 August 1907, Page 4

On the occasion of the prize-giving after a recent rifle meeting on Salisbury Plain, Lieutenant-General.Sir lan Hamilton" said: "As I watched this competition I thought how much better our men shoot tlian they used to do, and also than the men of any foreign army I know. In Manchuria, for instance, I have seen Russians and Japanese bobbing, up and down out of their., trenches or cover, not at 200 yards, but gt 50 yards, and at that range go on missing one another for so long that at last they took to the bayonet and to the butts of their rifles as the only filial solution. Theorists have since deduced from this the argument that bayonets and sabres and lances are all coming back again into general use. Don't you believe a word of it," The Bonrke-Wilcannia mail coach was recently destroyed by fire, and the whole of the mails were burned. It is reported that the driver was sheltering ! from a storm, and when he went back I found only the wheels and xmder-part striding.