OUR VOLUNTEERS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2253, 6 May 1897, Page 31

OUR VOLUNTEERS.

From a return vrh'ch has been compiled it appears that over 80 volunteer corps were engaged in volley firing during the year, the resul's of the firing «o far as the corps in the Ofcago district are concerned being as follows : —

The competition by marksmen for Government prize medals for the present year will take 1-Ucb ate the Pelichefc Bay rifl3 range on Saturday, the 15th inst., at 1 o'e'rek, and the following regulations have been issued in connection witb the competition: — " (1) Martini r.fieß and cirbin r s, on issue to the corps, are to be used ; (2) "Whitney's (colonial) Martini-Henry aaamuuitioa nausb be provided by corps, to whom a refund w lll ba made ; (3) marksmen must ba (•lficieut volunteers in order to compete; (4) ihc distance to be fired will be ?.'.»Oi<Ja staudinr .

300 yds kneeling, and 500 yd* acy ' military position,' 10 routidH abcach distance ; (5) t-uigets rb laid down in ' Riile Exercissa and Musketry Instruction, New Zealand Forcos, 18o5' ; (C) officers are not to compete ; (7) competitors must be in uniform ; (8) ties will bo decided as follows — first by the total aggregate hits, secondly by the vulue of eaoh shot taken in inverse oider, commencing with the longos'o range."

The National Coursing Club's Challenge Stakes and Bracelet meeting was to be run yesterday and to-day.

"While coursing was taking place near Dover Cliffs recently, a rabbit jumped over, and two dogs followed. They fell 200 ft on to the rocks, and although the rabbit was killed, the dogs were little the worse.

A large shark of the bottle-nosed species was I captured at Ruapuke on the 28th, after destroying some of the fishermen's nets. The monster measured from tip of t&iLto nose close upon 13ft, with a. girth of 10ft, and his mouth when open was fully 18in wide. He had three beautiful sets of teeth. j

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