ASSOCIATED VOLUNTEER CORPS.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 8349, 7 December 1892, Page 6

ASSOCIATED VOLUNTEER CORPS.

Two more matches for the 'above Corps' cWlenge cup were fired op Saturday . <£ Q were E BaJt*_- ¥ v christchurch "Rifles, the former ' t/iim __g oy 72 points; the other was *~ a ty Guards v (Siege ■m&lS&J*?'* victorious by 46 points! l*l rad *•"*_ blowing very strong from the Wexveaar ti * lß scores must be considered ■ **» a. Following are .he scores:— •V X V*' , BATTERY V C-_RIS_CHURCH _U-__39. w";' •*** Battery—Sergeant-Major Sinclair 75, Gunner Lester 74, Gunner Searle 74, Quartermaster Dougall 65, Gunner Butler f>4, Sergeant Were 64, Captain Jackson 60, Gunner Cropp 59, Ikimbadier Higgs 54, ' Sergeant Hen wood 46—total 635. Christchurch Rifles—Corporal Foster 62, Captain Andrews 62, Sergeant Scott 61, Private Bentley 60, Private Robinson 59, Private Murphy 59, Sergeant Thompson 55, Sergeant Dennis 51, Private Bunting 48, Private Brunsden 46—total 563.

CHRIST'S COLLEGE, RIFLES V CITY GUARDS.

College Rifles—Private Collins 75, Private Blakiston 73, Lance-Corporal Millton 65, Private Gibson 65, Private Evans 64, Private Pullan 60, Corporal Colclough 58, Corporal Stow 51, Colour-Sergeant Smith 48, Private Thorpe 46—total 605. City Guards—SergeantHooper 71, Captain Massev 66, Sergeant Ashton 63, Private Jowell 61, Lance-Corporal Ward 54, ColourSergeant Steere 54, Private Vivian 52, Sergeant Lezard 50, Private Butcher 45, Private Jack 43—total 559.

The final matches of the first half take place next Saturday and should be very exciting, the Battery meetinj* the College. Both Corps have beaten all the other Corps interested.