RIFLE SHOOTING.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8965, 1 December 1894, Page 8

RIFLE SHOOTING.

[On and after this date the announcements of rifle teams and boating crews will be charged for at. the rate of Is 6d an inch.]

The Waimate Rifles fired a mitch, Officers v Privates, at the Point Bush range on Thursday last. The conditions were, nine men aside and seven shots at 200, 300 and 500 yards. The following are the scores :— Officers—Sergeaut Sanders 84, Corporal Jackson 84, Lieutenant Grant 82, Corporal Hurst 81, Colour-Sergeant Inkster 80, Sergeant Guy 72, Lieutenant Coltman 69, Sergeant Gilkes 53, Bugler Drayton 37— total, 647. Privates—W. Nelson 83, Smith 81; G. Jones 78, Bateman 76, Williams 69, A. Inkster 66, Taylor 53, J. C. Hurst 49, W. Kett 12—total, 567.

The following men will represent the Canterbury Engineers in their match against tbe A Company for the associated corps' shield this afternoon :—Captain McGee, Lieutenant Bridgman, Sergeant-Major Midgley, Sergeant* Middleton, Lance-Cor-porals Watts and Smith, Sappers Buntin, Meikleham, Morrow and Parker. Emergencies, Lieutenant Anderson, Sapper Taylor and Lance-Cprporal Swanston. '

'The following Will represent the College Rifles in their match against the E Battery to-day■':—Lieutenant Smith, Sergeant Gibson, Corporal Hartland, Lance-Corporala Mill ton and Pullcn, . Privates Torlesse, Teape, Merton, Leversedge and Nalder. Emergencies—March, Hamilton and H. L. Turner.