RIFLE SHOOTING.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 59, 10 March 1906, Page 4

RIFLE SHOOTING.

' THE TRENTHAM MEETING

THE BEST FIFTY

:;- [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] > .c.,- TRENTHAM, March 9. The weather this morning is fine but dull*, and a fresh wind is blowing from the left. Many of the competitors a,re leaving camp now that the Belt matches are finished.

The Championship will be fired on Saturday afternoon, and quite a new departure is proposed in firing the final. Hitherto all the men went down together, but now that only 12 targets are available at 1000 yards the proposal is to fire the bottom half of the fifty men at 2 p.m., and the remainder later in the afternoon, when there is expected to be a fair attendance of the public from the city. Volley-firing, the second Volunteer Match, and the Teams Matches constitute to-day's programme. There are four ex-champions—=-Hyde, the Ballinger Brothers, and Milroy—in the final 50, but the1 only one with a chance of again annexing the Belt is Hyde. The list includes ten competitors who have at times visited Bisley, viz., Winslade, Irvine, Hyde, Drummond, Milroy, W. Loveday, Shanks, the Ballinger Brothers, and Shaw.

The two .303 Lee-Enfield rifles presented by the Defence Minister were allotted to the highest aggregates in the Belt matches, consequently they go to Winslade and Irvine. ,

So far only three possibles have been registered at the meeting, viz.,, Perrin (Palmerston North), 200 yards; Irvine (Nelson), 500 yards; and Garnett (Napier), 700 yards, for which the Association pays extra prizes of 10s, 10s, and £2 respectively. Last year there were nineteen possibles. The following tyros took £1 each in the Canterbury match: —McGowan (Mataura), Barnett (Takaka), Frankly n (Weber), Mawley and McMullin (Weber), 67; Munro (Murituku), Mclvor (Wellington), 65; Cuthbertson (Tua Marina), 64; Cooper (Palmerston North), Beauchamp (Marlborough), 63; Baird (Timaru), 62; Murphy (Timaru), Cockroft (Oreti), 62; Bptham (Tua Manna), 62. Counted out: —Bennett (Oamaru), Bretherton (Hawera), Sjnallbone (Nelson), Gunner Plimmer (Wellington);