MARKSMEN IN AUSTRALIA.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 94, 18 October 1909, Page 2

MARKSMEN IN AUSTRALIA.

♦ . ■ RANDWJCK GATHERING. CHAMPION TROPHY FOR HIGHEST AGGREGATE. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright SYDNEY, 17th October. Shooting-off with ten others who scored 286 out of a possible 325 in "The King's," Sergeant Dewar, Oamaru, won a gold-embroidered badge, one of these badges going to each of the first a y j the Kin ß'^ aggregate, the shooton deciding the winner of the last badge. Porritt, of Parramatta, v/on the Champion Trophy for tbe highest aggregate score (681). The trophy, which is valued at £10, is awarded to the highest aggregate scorer in the King's Longfield, and the Holmes aggregates. EMPIRE MATCH. THE NEW ZEALAND TEAM. tu x „ SYDNEY, 17th October. me following have been selected by Colonel Hughes, commander of the New Zealand team, to fire in the Empire Match : — » Rifleman G. Halliday, Karori. Captain King, Christchurch Riileman W. N. Masefield, Sounds Rifleman A. H. Guy, Kaponga. Sergeant, James, Napier. Lieut. Hi Hawthorn, Wellington Col.-Sergt Hadfield, Blenheim? Corporal Patrick, Auckland. COMMONWEALTH MATCH. Victoria won the Commonwealth Match with a score of 1654, Queensland second with 1646, South Australia 1643 New South Wales 1616, Tasmania 1616! FOR THE INTEGRITY OF THE EMPIRE. SHOULDER TO SHOULDER IN THE TRENCHES. Al 4 . SYDNEY, 17th October. At the Rifle Association's dinner, General Hoad proposed the toast of the New Zealand team. He said New Zealand and Australia would stand shoulder-to-shoulder in the trenches for the integrity of the Empire. ' •Colonel Eughes, comniander of the New Zealand team, responding, thanked Australians for the good time he and the team had had in New South Wales. He hoped to see Australian teams competing in New Zealand's Empire Match competition at Trentham next March