To-day's Shooting.

Feilding Star, Volume XXV, Issue 221, 7 March 1904, Page 2

To-day's Shooting.

TBENTHAM,\This Day. : The Rapid Firing Match, 600 yds, started at 8. The weather is fine, ana there is no wind. Perrin, Pal- . inerston North, pat up a possible, Willoughby, Makuri, ■ 33, Stuart, Ashburton, 82, Hall, Te Kapu, Waugh, Timaru, Wain, Studholme, Welsh, Opaki, 81 each. Winslade, Opaki, who was 20th in the aggregate, came a cropper with a score of The rapid firing has varied the positions of those in the aggregate considerably, though Ching and G. Loveday are still first and second place with 825 and 828. J. Wilson has gone up from sixth place to third, Walton from tenth to fourth, Colour-Sergeant Irvine from twelfth to fifth, Turnbull from seventh to sixth, Private Cox from eleventh to eighth. W^Ballinger and Q. Hawthorne, who were third and fourth respectively, now tie for tenth place, while Skinner, who was ; fifth, tiea Turnbull for sixth prize. , The Nelson match (500 yards) was fired with a strong, rear shifting wind and varying light. Thome (Christchurch), Lieut. Oakey (Taranaki), Irvine (Waimia), Higgins (Timaru), Captain Doinigan (Gore), King (Opaki), got 84 each. Ching and G. Loveday, the leading men in the aggregate, scored only 29 and 32 respectively. There are several 88*s andß2's. ' At the 600 yards in the Nelson Match a strong wind played havoo with the shooting, and the shooting was poor. Atkinson (lucklaid) and Sandford (Christchurch)"; were the only two men who niade B£\G. Loveday (Waikato) and Armitage (Taranaki) 88 ;- Marezzi (Pangaroa), Ramsey (Hawke's Bay), - Badger (Greymouth), Evans (No. 1 Engineers), 31 each; W. Cox, Lieut. Okey <Taranaki), Lavery (Christchurch}, Skinner (Auckland), and J. McKenzie (Opaki) made only 25 each ; Howe (Wellington), Feist (Kaiwaiwai) 23 each; Ching (Waimea), G. G. Hawthorne (Karori), and both Ballingers 27; Shanks, 29; Tarnbull (Opaki), 24 ; G. Hyde (Opaki), 26. This will alter the averages very considerably. The range ig' unfinished.