Riffle Shooting.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12252, 11 May 1903, Page 7

Riffle Shooting.

♦ ; CHARGES AGAINST A' 51 EMBER. ; Per Press Association. ! ■ ■' - "Wanganui, "May 31. J Jt appears that /jhers i^ sons friction between Colonel Soimnorvillc and Corporal Winslad©-of -Wanganui — oxer, -the latter' s non inclusion in the^ proposed Bisley team. Winslade was flfti. for the belt at Trentham last year and won ihe Colonial Amnrunition Coy.'s prize for the highest aggregate at long ranges' and when the •team for Bisley was pencilled in at tjhe conchrsion of t3ie meeting his name was amongst tho- first three. When •t^ie names of -the team were published and Winsla/de was not amongst them, he wrote to Colonel Sorikiaerville \«ho gave five reasons for his non inctu1 sion : — 1 -Absent from parade at Home i without leave.. 2 failed to attend the presentation, of prizes at Bisley, 3 put , a bfuirs eye on the wrong target in shooting for the Kojapore Cup ; 4 used a . strange rifle in the McKmnon Gup; 5 left the team in the lurch for the Belgium Cup. Winslade replies admitting the ...first and thijSd . fthargos arid denies 2 atod 5. A 9A 9 to 4, he says his rifle broke down, and all, ihq mmubers of the team knew ho was going to use a rifle lent him'..byr..Gaptain Nelson wtho was sofretary cf the team at Home. The following team will represent the Hawera "Rifles in the match "against the Taranaki , Rifles Road on Wednesday . :--Gs.p%%\n, Pa fcerson, Lieutenant Payn'e,~ Sergeant^ Blair, Privates Moore, Atkinson, ~Poole,"Hudson, Peterson. Emergencies : Privaties Ogden and Phillips.