Drill Hall & Rifle Range

Southern Cross, Volume 8, Issue 31, 24 November 1900, Page 10

Drill Hall & Rifle Range

Volunteers and Rifle Club members are invited to contribute to this column Items of news, diagrams of targets reports of matches, meetings, and all events of interest to volunteers and shooting men will be received. Add ress « Magpie,” Southern Cross Office.

Parade nights of local corps : Garrison Band, Mondays and Thursdays ; City Guards, Mondays, regularly ; Oreti Bides, Tuesdays, regularly; Awarua Rifles, Fridays, regularly; the Gore parade regularly, Government Inspection being held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays in each month ; Southland Mounted Rifles, town contingent, foot parades every second Thursday at Garrison Ball; mounted parades every fourth Wednesday afternoon at Waikiwi; Winton, Thornbury and Otautau contingens parade as per dates on cards issued to each member. NOTES BY VOLLEY FIRING. The Government returns this year are divided into two classes, the North Island corps armed with Martini Enfield rifles firing at 500 and 600 yards, and, Southern men with Martini Henri firing at 300 and 400 yards. In the former group the Napier Eifles were highest with an average per man of 12‘56, while the South Island returns include the following :

Order of merit. O Corps. men firing o 3 bO c* . £ a ffu Average last year 1 Tixnaru Port Guaros 45 20-91 19 25 2 Kaiapoi Bides 51 20 42 17-75 3 Tinoaru Eifles 51 2033 19 14 4 Titnaru City Bifles 52 18-71 18-58 5 Dunedin Engineers 57 18-42 16 North Dunedin Bifles 49 15-30 22 Oreli Bifles 48 1394 11.26 38 Gore Rifles 38 1313 10 90 31 Otago Hussars 42 12-52 51 AwaraaRifles 55 8 62 814 52 In’gill City Guards 39 8 60 8 48