NEW ZEALAND RIFLE

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7176, 21 September 1886, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND RIFLE

ASSOCIATION. The following are the new rules and amendments for the 1887 meeting, Bent for the approval or otherwise of members

of Council, who will please note any alterations or further amendmenta in the margin, and return immediately. Joe Reginald Sommekville, Captain.

1. Wellington Match, 200 and 500 yards, 25 prizes 70 2. Hawke's Bay Match, 200 and 500 yards, 20 prizes Belt 60 3. Auckland Match, 200, 300, and 500 yards, 25 prizes Belt 70 4. Marlborough Match, 500 and 600 yards, 20 prizes ... Rifle Belt 60 6." Nelson Match, 300 and 500 yards, 18 prizes Carbine Belt 50 6. Christchurch Citizens' Match, 200 300, 500 yards, 35 prizes ... Belt 120 7. Wanganui Match, 300 and 600 yards, 20 prizes ... Rifle Belt 60 8. West Coast Match, 300 and 500 yards, 18 prizes ... Carbine Belt 50 9. Otago Match, 200, 300, and 500 yards, 25 prizes Belt 50 10. New Plymouth Match, 200 and 300 yarde, 20 prizes ... Belt 60 Rifle Aggregate 80 Carbine Aggregate 80 Team Matches 150

New Plymouth Mateh — 10 shots at 200 yards ; 10 shots at 300 yards. Standing at 200 ; kneeling at 300. To count for both belts. District Match— 2oo, 300, and 500 yards, if with Sniders; if Martini- Enfields, GOO, 700, and 800 yards. Twenty men each team ; to be selected by the districts. Districts as follows : — Auckland and Thames, 1 ; Taranaki and Wanganui, 1 ; Wellington, 1 ; Napier, 1 ; Nelson, Marlborough, and Westland, 1 ; Canterbury, 1; Otago, 1.

Tjsam Matches. — Please give me your opinion as to whether there shall be one Team Match as last year, or one for rifles and one for carbines as formerly. Addition to Clause 19 (instructions to register-keepers).— ''Should this second trial fail, the rifle or carbine to be handed to the officer in command to be finally tested, pnd there shall be no appeal from his decision."

General Regulations.— Clause XII. : Addition— " The word 'coach' shall mean that the captain or any member of the team shall give all the assistance they can to each other as to windage, elevation, and spotting ; but coaching shall not be taken to include plumbing the competitor's rifle by looking over his shoulder." Rifles and Carbines. — The rifles and carbines shall be clased as follows :—: — Sniders : Medium Snider rifles, artillery or cavalry. Carbines : As issued from the N.Z. Government stores.

Ammonitiox.— None but the ammunition issued by the N.Z.R.A. at the firing point shall be allowed. The ammunition BO issued shall in no way be tampered with. Sighting-shot ammunition will be iflsred to competitors as required, but no competitor shall be allowed to take away any cartridges issued and not fired. Competitors have the right to hand back any cartridge they may think unfit to fire, and the register- keeper shall issue a fresh one in exchange. Extra Match. — It has been represented that, as there are a great number of small-bore rifleß now in the colonj', an "Any Rifle Match," entrance fee 205., should be added to the programme. Please give opinion on the subject. Date of Meeting. — It has been represented to me that the 1887 meeting should take place early in February. PJease give your opinion. I fancy that we should try and arrange the meeting so that competitors might be able to see either the Fire Brigades Contest in Dunedin, about tho end of January, or the Christchurch Cup, about the middle of February.

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will remove the symptoms and speedily renew his usual healthful feeling. _ If the bowels be irritable, Holloway's Ointment should be diligently rubbed over the stomach and liver every night and mornins. 35

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THE "DEATH OF CORA PEARL." Thb death in Paris of Emma Grouch in a state of semi-starvation, has recalled tbe brilliant but guilty career of the daughter of tho composer of "Kathleen Mayourneen." Twenty years ago the equipage of the now deceased woman, then well known to tho " gay world " as Cora Pearl, was one of the sights of Hyde Park. When she removed from London to Paris her stables were the talk of the - city, and it is said the wealthiest and most refined of Frenchmen were not above taking a bint from hei on the subjeot of hoises. Her apartments in the fibamps Blysees wore magnificently furnished, aud everything that money could procure was brought together to adorn the residence of this representative of tha detni tnonde. While the Empire lasted- Emma Crouch lived in thoughtless splendour, but the crash came, and she fell nmidst its ruins. The steps by which she gradually sank are unknown, but the circumstantial details of the closing hours of her existence showed that she died in the most aqualid poverty. The expenses of her funeral were paid by subscription, and fifty francs were sent by the secretary of a very great and very mean personage to buy "a five years' grave." As considerable doubt has been thrown around the paternity ofthis woman, it may not be amiss to state that her father was F. Nicholls Crouch, once-a popular London musician. Subsequtmtly he emigrated to America, and was engaged in one of the Italian troupes about tbe year 1848. Later _> ho established himself as a teacher of .music in Portland, and was activo in getting up classical performances, madrigalß, atd chamber music; Fortune did not, however, favour him in the New World. When Madame Christine Nilsson was in America some years ago, on one occasion she sang ' ' Kathleen Mavourneen" as an encore. After the performance, a wretched looking, poverty-stricken man threw bimßelf at her feet, and thanked her with tears for singing so exquisitely his Bong, tho child of his brain. .. This, we are told, was Crouch, " reduced to such Btraits that he was almost unable to command the price of a meal."