GREAT RIFLE MATCH.—AUSTRALIA v. ENGLAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 626, 28 November 1863, Page 7

GREAT RIFLE MATCH.— AUSTRALIA v. ENGLAND.

This great international rifle match took place on the 15th September, at the Sudbury rifle range, Derbyshire, the property of Lord Veruon. This match wasthe result of a challenge sent hy Captain Macfarlane, of Milang, South Australia, whose company possessed the greatest number of marksmen in the colony in the year 1882, and the challenge was that ten men of his company would shoot ten of the company claiming similar honors in England. One of the conditions of the challenge was that each side «hould shoot at butts where they had not been acsustomed to practise. DLtances— 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, and 900 yard, seven rounda per ma>i at eaoh range -rifle, the long Enfield. Captain Mundella's company, the Ist Bobin Hoods (Nottingham), sent in a certificated statement, which having been submitted to Colonel M'Murdo, Captain Mundella was informed that his ten wore expect -d to compete with the colonial ten. The weather on Ihe whole was fine, but there was a strong wind, The following is the return of the full score ; -

Totals ..190 156 196 163 125 142109 74 1155 Averages... l 9-00 15 60 1960 16-3.) 12-50

14/20 10# 7<40 115 50 Lieutenant Ev.a.ns is a member of the firm of Hine and Evans, architects, from whose designs the greater part of the new town of Nottinprluni hnsbeen built Ensign Perry is a merchant in the American trade : Corporal Hedfern, a plum her ; Corporal Smith, a laee manufacturer; Mr hepperly, a druggist] Mr Noddall, a draper ; Mr Bass, a plumber ; and Messrs Coles, Brewster, and White, young men under 20 years of age, the 'asf -named not yet 17. Captain Muudella had charge of the firing party, and Captain Hay, late, of the Meath Militia, and now adjutant of the second Derbyshire Volunteer Battalion, officiated as umpire. " < The Robin Hoods experienced the greatest kindness a.ud hospitality from Loisl Vernon, w,hD h.a,d. a magnificent luncheon provided, f»r the men in the shooting-house. N«ne yt the 1Q had ever before fired a sb.qt afc the Sudbury range} arid although the Australians claim to fire ia any position beyond 300 yards the Robin Hoods decided to. keep to the regulation Hytheposition. Should the snme company rank highest in England for the number of its luar&men, Captain Munde.la fens decided not to fire again with less than 20 men", as 10 ayq not sufficient to test the shooting qu/ility-ot a company.

Tyranny in Baltimore.— The Times new orrespondent in the Worth,, who ha« been hitherto decently fair, draws a melanchojy picture ot the condition of Baltimore. As. {his city is hostile, and oommxnAa the best line of communication between Washington and the North, it has .all along been necessary f> hold it- dawn, by military ' force, to threaten the city with batteries and place gunboats in the liter. 'Unfortunately the Government entrusted the necessary power to General Bchenk, who uses it like an Austrian, punishes opinion as well as revolt, and lets . fri»nds of the Union do pretty much as they like, The extraordinary latitude allowed to. womon in America niakea this abssnee of justice all the more bitter, as this shocking anecdote-, proves ;— " On o»e of her late visit* the wife of n Yankee schoolmaster walked into the ward of the Confederate wounded with ft Federal flip in her hand, and held the o) noxious, stars and stripes over the bed of a dying sufferer, saying, as she waved the rustling silk iv his very face, ' There, my friend, you were lo^h to live under tbjs glorious banner ; it must be refreshing to you at least to die under it !"' The story will, we trust, be refuted; but enough remains to show thitf in -America, as in Europe* the least just of GoTenaments is that of a WiUtary satrap— 3p«tf«far« \ • •

Yds yds yrts yds yds yda yds yds S $ 200 300 40 J 500 600 700 800 9Qonj£ Points. Lieut Evans ..23 18 17 19 20 19 8 9 . 133 Ens Perry ...IT 18 19 21 9 20 6 3.'. 113 }orp! Redfern..2O 15 20 17 16 11 16 10... 125 2orplvSniiih ..16 I1)I 1 ) 18 7 7 10 16 8.. 02 Private 8aa5... 21 15 17 14 13 12 96 „. 107 Private Shepperley 19 17 19 17 10 14 11 11... 118 Pnv NcddaU...l6 13 23 17 13 10 10 10 . 108 Priv Brawster..lfl 14 16 18 9 19 7 7 108 PrivCnles ..20 17 24 15 15 17 7 7 128 Priv White ...27 19 23 18 13 7 3 3 123