DISTRICT PRIZE FIRING.

Evening Post, Volume VI, Issue 293, 26 January 1871, Page 2

DISTRICT PRIZE FIRING.

The firing for district prizes was continued by No. 1 Co. W.R.V., at the Adelaide Butts, on Friday and Saturday afternoons, Lieut. -Colonel Reader being in command. On each occasion there was a strong wind blowing across the range from the right front. The following Are fche scores made in addition to those published on Friday : —

Two lumrs spent in watering a garden just before it is soaked by a thundershower is a work of superirrigation. The inmates of the piison at Cambridge, Mass., have formed an opera troupe and do some pretty good singing- It is not a travelling company* though.

FiKsr sex.. 400 500 600 TotL Member Halse 14 la 13—42 Member Harton 9 10 4—23 Sergeant Wilson 13 S o—2l SECOND SET. 300 400 500 TotL Sergeant Wilson 19 15 13—47 Miis. Us. Gillon 14 IS 14—46 Member "Webb IS 17 S — i:i Member 1). Gray.* ... IS 14 10—42 Member Halse 12 17 12—41 Member Batkin 10 IS 12 — 40 Member Harrison ... 13 15 10—40 Corporal O'Connor ... 17 10 12—39 Member J. Gray 13 11 13—37 Member Taylor 13 11 11—35 Member Player 11 13 6—32 Member St. George ... 11 10 10—31 Member Harton 9 10 o—l9 The Veteran Company fired yesterday, and* made the following scores :—: — WRT SET. 400 500 600 TotL Captain Crowe 14 1G 10—40 Member H. Bowater ... 9 11 2—22 Member -T. Bo water ... 13 9 7—317 — 31 Member G. Harris .. S 3 6—176 — 17 Member Holmes .. .. 5 9 7—21 Member Scott 10 3 7—20 Member White 10 10 11—31 Member Brown S 4 10—22 Member Brewer 11 0 4—15 Member Levy 17 15 S— 4o SECOND SET. 300 400 500 TotL Member Holmes 14 13 16—43 Member J. Bowater .. 15 13 9—37 Member EL Bowater „. 12 13 4— 2S Member G. Brewer ... 12 10 5—27 Member G. Harris ... 12 5 5—22 Member White 15 13 15 — 45 Member Bowie 14 9 10 — 33 Captain Crowe 17 12 15 — 44 Member Scott 10 13 17—40 The Artillery competitors were to fire this afternoon.