RIFLE SHOOTING.
4 A* EMPIRE MATCH.
(rRHSS ASSOCIATION' TELEGRAM.) WELUXCTON. April 23. The British National Rifle Association has accepted a on© hundred guinea i challcngo trophy from Colonel Schumpher, cf the Witw&tersrand Rifles., to bo competed for annually on Empire Day by teams c<f forty men, picked from any regiment of cavalry, battalion of...infantry, or brigade of artillery of the Regular, Volunteer amd Auxiliary forces tnroughout th« Empire, and also crews cf warE'li-ipa. Saturday, 23rd .May, has been fixed as the date of tho competition, amd tihe jXew. Zeqknd Detfence Deitmrtiuent ie circularising the officers commanding i districts asking them to miuke arrange- j inents for firing on local ranges. The ' names cf tho teaans and tho *da.to will be notified to the promoters by cable a wedi be forth and. The ecores, also, will be 6&nt by oa*ble.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13098, 24 April 1908, Page 3
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