RIFLE SHOOTING.

Evening Post, Volume LXV, Issue 69, 23 March 1903, Page 6

RIFLE SHOOTING.

The Zcalanditv Rifles fired tho flrat j&atch for the company's bolt and Mr. iloyd'a medal on Saturday at Trent ha fn tinder favourable weather conditions. The ranges were 900 and 600 yards, 10 shots at each. Following arc the highest . j .scores:— N 200 500 Hp. T. Pvt. Richards 44 39 7-90 1 S«fgt. Guy 42 39 9—90 > Lieut. Hobbs ... 40 45 o—Bs Sergt. Bunckcnburg ... 44 41 o—Bs Sergt. Frandi 35 35 B— 7B

Mr- H. F. yon Haaat, con of the late Sir Julius yon Haast, who has been fcway from tho colony for & number of , yean, returned by tho Tongariro this tnbrning, Mr. J. R. Blair, Chairman of the Wellington Education Board, who, in company with his nan. has bwn making n iix montha' trip through South Africa, returned by the Tongariro this morning. Mr. Blair speak* of the trip as hnving been a very delightful one, made for the I most part in excellent weather, and cmoracing a run through the nowly-con-nuerea States and visits to many of tho battlefields of the recent war. He thinks highly of the country — of .which he «iw a great expanse in his wanderings — and returns home much benefited in health. Mr. R. Wright addressed a meeting on the wharf at midday to-dny. Jn answer* to a quettion, he read from the Licensing Act a? clause which showed that barmaids could be employed ten hours per day, and until 11 at night. The foundation atone of the new warehouse now being erected on the Byko corner was laid this morning by Mr. A. H. P. Thompsoh, Wellington mnnpger for Messrs. Mack/, Steen and Culd•well:. To-day is the twenty-first anniversary of the firm's start in business. There are 33 candidates for the three ■eats ta be filled by representatives of the wages etaff on the Board created by the Bailways Superannuation Fund Act of last session. We have to acknowledge receipt from Mr. W. Lawson, of this city (better known as "Quilp N." author of numerous verses and brief literary sketches), a small collection of original poems, which l will receive fuller notice in Saturday's Supplement. Colonial moils which left Melbourne per Omrali via Naples on 18th February o*rm'd. in London on tho afternoon «f ih4 ?2nd inst., duo data.