SHOOTING COMPETITIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10042, 7 May 1894, Page 2

SHOOTING COMPETITIONS.

A match was fired on Saturday afternoon at Pelichet Bay range between teams from the Permanent Artillery and Danedin Naval Artillery. The match was fired under strictly military conditions and proved very exciting, the Navals jast wincing by 1 point, The conditiois were 12 men a-side; seven shots and a sighter at 200j>d3 (standing), 300 yds (kneeling), and. 400 yds (prone), the small ipner being used it 200 and 300 yards; At 200jds the Navals were 10 to the good; at 300f ds the Artillery reduced this to I.point, and both teams scoring the same at 400 yds the. match resulted as .above stated. Gnnnex Jones {63) and Sergeant Shephard (58) were the highest scorers foil the Artillery, while P.O. Jack and Gunner M'Millan (62 each) occupied similar positions for the Navalß. ■ '•: . •, i ■■. ),' :■', The Otago Hussars fired theirannual match for troop Champion Belt on Saturday in a doll light, when, with the exception of the winner's soore, only fair shooting was made. The following got 50 points and over. ConditionsSeven shot 3at 200, 400, and 500 yards. >

THE PKLTStCESS THEATRE.

There were two performances at the Princess Theatre on Saturday by the Kennedy-Deering Dramatic and Comedy Company. In the afterneon there was a crowded audience, principally composed of children. Meßsrs Kennedy and Deering hed very kindly invited the children of the Caversham Industrial School to witness the performance, and the children attended in full force under the charge of Mr Burlinson,* the matter of the school and several members of his staff. A better piece from an educational point of view than the one produced could not have been selected. "Uncle Tom's Cabin"ig in its nature so dramatic that it is readily adapted for presentation on the boards of a theatre. Thß version produced by ths compaoy on Saturday may fairly be described as powerful^ The marvellous pathos of the book lost none of its power by the transference of the story to the stage. AH the characters were well played; some exceedingly well. In the afternoon performance prominence was given as far as possible to the humorous side of the drama, and with this the children were highly delighted, but at the same time the play itself was not in any way lowered into comedy or degraded to farce. At the evening performancei ■"' Uncle " Tom's Cabin 3" was repeated with success. There was a crowded dress circle, and not even standing room left in | the stalls. The members of the company did I their very best to entertain their patrons, and 1 the audience proved sympathetic and appieeiative. 'Mr Oily Deering sustained the character of Uncle Tom, and as such simply lived the part on the staged. More psinstaking and yet perfectly rjatural acting is very rarely witnessed. Mr Kennedy was the quaker farmer Phineas yon Trompe, and, as usual, was amusing and effective. Miss Lily Hill took two,characters—Miss Ophelia and Cassy (the quadroon),—and appeared to advantage in both. Little Ruby Kennedy was a very lively and amusing Topsy, and her song and dance, " Golly, I'm so wicked," was much relished. The character of the child Eva was taken by a very small child (Lily Cole); and was played in a truly remarkable and mest affecting manner. Mr Saville was the slavedealer Legree, Mr H. Page was St. Clair, and Mr Frank Norton the quadroon George Harris. These characters were all well represented, and, indeed, the caßte was a good one throughout. The piece was well mounted, the scenery and tho setting of the play bsing very creditable.

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" will be repeated for the last time this evening.

200 400 600 : n ,t, . yds yds. y°s. i\. Corporal Pram 24 24 2i — 72 Sergeant Stronach 25 17 IS "(10 Sergeant Burnside 26 20 12 58 Corporal Allan ..... 26 15 13 - 54 Trooper J. Findlay ... ... 2S 14 12 — 54 Trooper M'Donald 17 20 16 — 53 An interesting shooting match was fired at the Pelichet Bay range on Saturday afternoon between teams chcaea from tho St. John Ambulance Corps and from the ambulance Bquad of the Dunedin Engineers. Notwithstanding the disadvantages under which tho St. John team laboured for want of practice, a fairly well-contested match took place, tKo Engineers' smbulancers securing a win. The scores were:— ENGINEERS. 200 400 yds. yds. TI. Engineer TJre 25 25 — !>0 Sergeant Kusaell 27 23 — 50 Sergeant Paterson 20 23 — 43 Engineer Spence ... ... ... 24 17 — 41 Engineer Campbell... 23 15 — 38 Engineer Hay. 16 21-37 Engineer Young 17 19 — 38 295 ST. JOHN AMBULANCE COUPS. Mr G. Barclay 20 30 — 56 Mr J. H. Moir 20 23 — 43 Mr P. Dick ... .14 23 — 37 Superintendent Mearns 17 16 — 33 Mr A. Mathews 15 16 — 31 MrR. Farrant ... 16 IS — 31 Mr A. Sharp ... ... 13 18 — 29 KM The Roslyn Woollen Mills employees on Saturday had a friendly amateur shooting match.at the Kaikorai range (kindly lent by the City Guards) between the Scotch Borderers, chosen by Mr D. Cleghorn, and a Scratch team, selected by Mr John Riddle, at ranges of 200 and 400 yards. The match proved exciting towards the finish, the Scratch men wintiiDg by 8 points; v ' SCOTCH TEAM. ,, . 209 400 ■ i yds. yds. TI. J. Smaill n 23-48 P. Scott... 16 8 —'■H W. Elder ... .1 28 19 — 47 D. Cleghorn 14 16 — SO J. Ovens 11 17—£8 T. Hiddleston... 21 14—135 212 SCRATCH TEAM. - i A. Armlt ... ... ... ... 26 25 — 51 J.Hutchison ... 9 19 — 28 J. Kiddle ... ... 10 14 — 24 W. Weir ... ...... ... 24 16 — 40 B. Harness :.. 29 18—47 T:Stevenson; ... .;; 21 9—30