SHOOTING.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12772, 20 April 1910, Page 4

SHOOTING.

STOKE RIFLES. Tho Stoke Rifles fired tho eighth competition for the cup' and secondclass medals last Saturday on the Brightwater nuigci, when Private Woollett secured top place with 88 points, which gives him his third leg- j in for the Kaiapoi Woollen Company's trophy, and it now becomes his own property. Tho weather conditions were very tricky, and the wind was changing as quickly as lightning, and puzzled all the marksmen. Ten shots were fired at 500 and 600 yards. Scores : — 500 600 Hp Ti Private W. Woollett 38 36 14 88 Corpl. F. H. Sharland 42 38 — 80 Private J. Sharland 38 34 — 72 Corporal J. Fisher 39 31 — 70 Sergeant Jamason 33 37 — 70 Next Saturday competitions will bp held for Colonel Harkness 1 trophy tor first class shots, and Lieutenant Balck's trophy for second-class shots, ranges 200 and 500 yardsy 7 shots at each distance, on the Brightwater range. __ .