COMPETITIVE FIRING FOR REPRESENTATIVES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1309, 27 January 1868, Page 4

COMPETITIVE FIRING FOR REPRESENTATIVES.

To tlio Editor of the Hekatd. Sjlt,—Tn your report of the above you very justly impute blame to soma on.i, inasmuch na from sixty porsons not cno fc re J fifty points. You further asi> for ii mason why such a result t >r>!c place ? I answer bec uijo there is 110 butt or bi»eli£iound to the lnrpct, which fifun-Js on the odjje of the consequently nil bullets parsing the targot or Riling over tfc" same, are nupposed by the spectators to piisi on tlio side from which nnr upeetator may see them. In addition to tho above the rifle ran has the sun full in his eyes ttfror ten or oleven o'clock, with tlio additional fae.t officii a light playing nil sorts of tricks with lih lillj eights, both front, and back ; and when y~u consider ott that day no allowance of from six to nine ii:ofc of windage, with a lift of throa feet had to be allowed for at sis hundred yards, you will turren with ma that to makti tho score required u butt was the onlr means br which sucli ft result was f> be obtained. Mi'iv 'of us liave agitate 1 to get a butt erected, and have offered to contribute in monoy or labor; bu: thero app.-ars to bo something ro'.tcn in {'ha state of Penmavlr, for 110 re-nit follows but. a a-:knowl#du:eincnt that rtieh a thing is very requisite, and wou'.d be a saving of time and uuimunic:on. Trusting you will roe ivo this explanation a? ail esoueM'.ion of privates of Corps who have uov-T Ivid the proposal for tlie eree'ion of a butt brought beloro them, I'bog m ;st respectfully to mibwribe myself Nil. DESI'EHAMVCM. [ The officers, ondthoso in command are, we beliure, to blame, for it is owhjv to them alout) that tlio above o j.-ct alluded to by our corc-pondet't was not carried out long tiao, and tlio present apparent disgrace to the Volunteers avoi led.—!- v. N.Z.it.]