VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4668, 30 October 1876, Page 3

VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE.

- HrPLE MATCH. Th> merjiben of Company oob - menced. their target practice season o > &*srday aftir&Si? usual oompet - tioa for the Company's silver medal, then 31 ihe.'poaeesaion of tfi# winner, Corporal Hai • ,l«itt, Seventeen,members pnt iaanappea • *mL a firml^p'^or^SEtic*?'iFwal I'too early in the season for any briUant scores to 1 e rpuV^gelfi^BeTertfel^/eonie^y , itoo ;- ing was made. A fresh breeze was blowit g from tb»3ioi!i&-eiMftO Yotitntieer Moss wonthe medal with 55 points, hardly pressed I y score of 54. The full scores are as follow:- -

At 2CO and;3W -yards the firing.was at the 8-ioch bulPe:e'ye;".et*ndinß, j.at 4<X)'and 500 yards'th^o^^^^^^allowea;to as; sume any pofutioithey pleased. ■-' !

H.M.S.' SAPEHISE..'F.j I The friendly match between eight blqe jackets and marines ojE^H.M.S. Sapphire and An equal"number .-of \ members of the Victoria Companj will take'place this aftern<M>fl,, The ranges will be 200, 300,400, 600, and 600 yards ; s,shots at each,. The targets ' eVed will be' the. regulation -ones. .„ The odds = are4n^avoiof,themen.ot theocean,>as they are armed with a weapon far superior to the Snider, both !: f66 qt firing, viz.,, .considered equal; ta any small-bore; have been a.real test of the' several competitore, skill' as' h^d,, they arrj^ed r foran.e^ohangQofr.rifles— : firing half the snots with one weapon end the remaining half with the other. ; ; A,8 l; . ; it is'.at present, pujj Jpc^','|ahQoijis^ , V;arp':pla<?ed on|a very disadvantageous footing_iasi compared with thei» ppponfentsi "The 'Victoria Conr.- • piny 'hiv^.p^oyided'.i.Vehicle in which %o convey thecprnpetitore tothei range; It wvU leave the wharf at-abont l^m. , ;, ~ ' FORTHeOMING CONTESTS; - ■ P'n : Saturday next'th'e .ofithe "Viptoria Company willifre the first setof a match for : -Tt-Kioh'a'rieaf,is'offered-as thepn?e. Qn the Saturday 11th. November, f. trial of 'skill "wifll" take place between the Victoria and No. _3_Companies f 15 men aside. The ranges will be 200, 400, and,: 500 yards, seven shots, at eaoh. All the conditions have been fixed by the No. 3 Co., which, threw, down the challenge.. The match will" be a crucial test of the "relative position wmch'theitwo corps oooupy in the shooting world of Auckland,- and will settle, for a time ,at Jbaast:th,&disputedj'questiorf as to which is' this premier shootipg company ; in this portion ,of , the province.. A.nnmher of the members of the Victoria Company hailing from "Old England"' intend challenging the colonial team which is now in course of formation. , The gage will doubtless be promptly taken ' up, and the preliminaries .of the match speedily arranged. ■

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