RIFLE SHOOTING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11792, 4 March 1909, Page 7

RIFLE SHOOTING.

. - — '" .. ♦■-'...'■ • . (Per Press Association.) TRBNTHAM, last night. " The weather promises fine for the, opening > ' of i the Trentluun meeting. Forty-live officers, non-eommissioniea officers and men, and 181 rifle club members are in camp. Two. hundred . tints' have been erected for the besides nine niarquees. This is in addition to the accommodation, occupied by the members of the Permanent Artillery, who <ir© acting a» markers, etc. The caanp arrangements this year are excel-' lent, and competitors have shown theii\ appreciation : of this fact 1 by nearly ,all' being accommodated xinder canvas, instead of numbers being' located in. farmhouses, as in former yearsl It is probable that next meeting will ssee evefry, competitor remaining permanently *".incamip of Jiis own free will. The rifle ehitifl and/ volunteers' match, tut 200, 6QO,' and) 800 yards, will be jent^red tjpon; in, the morning. Theset wilj ]>'racticaillv 1 the whole day. This is the largest meeting in the ' history of the'Afisociation. • > 1 ' TR^'THAM, this day. ... The Trentham moeting , opened thjjj morning under favorable auspices. There are record entries, and 'fine weather. The shooting 1 started at "200yds, in j-he volunteer match. In the early stager ri~ fair number of all-buts were put upjiiut the wind, which was then slight, steadr ily increased, andjthe scoring slackened, Thirty -threes were numerous, and on* the whole the phooting was good;' The /Jol-, lowing made possibles: Burns (Krirotf), Higgins (Timaru), and Speck (Stratfcfr^V The shooting at the 600yds rarige.^J now progressing. ' ''$.