SHOOTING.

Timaru Herald, Volume LX, Issue 2337, 6 March 1897, Page 3

SHOOTING.

The C Battery, N.Z. A., fired for Messrs A. M. Hendy and G. Strachan's trophies on Thursday afternoon. Sergeant Green won the former with the score of 35 (ten shots at 300 yards), and Sergeant Boys the latter with the score of 36 (ten shots at 500 yards). Sergeant Boys also won Mr Smith son's aggregate. Ihe following are the highest scores : — MR A. M k HENDY'S TROPHY. • - 300 .■;• . yds hep Tl. Sergeant Green 32 3 35 Gunner Mathieson ... 30 5 35 Gunner Jackson ... 30 2 32 Sergeant Boys 31 0 31 Gunner Boys ..." ... 29 2 31 Gunner T. Graham ... 27 4 31 •v'f • ■•- Mr g. strachan's trophy. ' :' : - 500 r ''■I-,: yds hep. Tl. Sergeant Boys 36 0 36 Corporal Craigie... ... 33 2 35 Trumpeter 80y5... ... 31 2 33 Bombardier Morton ... 26 5 31 Gunner Mathieson ... 25 5 30 Sergeant Green 27 3 30 The following are the highest totals for Mr Smithson's aggregate :— ; 300 500 ". % ydsydshp. Tl. Sergeant Boys ... ... 31 36 0 67 Sergeant Green 32 27 6 65 Guuner Mathieson ... 30 25 10 65 Trumpeter Boys 28 31 4 63 Gunner Kaye ... ... 26 24 10 60 In 1890 the public debt of Australasia was £182,500,000, by the end of 1895 it Was £212,500,000, and the interest would possibly amount to £8,500,000 per annum. The average price of wheat m 1890 was 3s 7d per bushel, m 1895 it was 2a 10£ d, and the fall meant that about 360,000,000 n\ore bushels of wheat would be needed m 1895 than m 1890 to pay off the debt. As to wool, its average price m 1890 was 8 9-10 d per lb ; m 1895 it was 6id ; so ■that it would have taken nearly 3,000,000,000 lbs more m 1895 than m 1890 to pay off the debt on a wool basis. AUCTIONEERS