THE N.Z. RIFLE ASSOCIATION MEETING.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9396, 24 March 1898, Page 2

THE N.Z. RIFLE ASSOCIATION MEETING.

The Champion and the Runner-up.

The champion, who is about 30 years of age, is employed as foreman in the freezing works at Oamaru. He was a member of the local Battery of Artillery until it was disbanded, and since tlien he has been a private in the Oamaru Guards. For yeara he has been an excellent shot, but it was not until two years ago that he. appeared conspicuously at a rneetjng of the Association. When the Association's meeting was held at Oamaru the year before last he missed his ln,stsh.qt, otherwise hVwould have won the Championship. As itwashe tied with Eule, of Oamaru.-and his opponent beat him, thus securiug'second place His business prevented him attending the the meeting at Auckland last year, but he afterwards paid a visit to Sydney and won several prizes there. 'M'G'regor.who is almost a teetotaller and a non-smoker, is very popular in Oamaru, No volunteer in the colony is better known than Lieut. Boss, of Napier, who has finished second for the Championship. He has taken a prominent part in the meetings of the Association for the past 15 years, and was three timea-the winner of tho Carbine Championship — in 1884, 1886, and 1888. He has never yet won the Eifle Championship ; in fact, up to the present he has never gome out promt, nently for the shooting of this event. In view of the close finish,' the following paragraph from the range notes in hist Friday's Dunedin Star-is interesting;— " M-Gregor challenged a sfiofc in the Oamaru Match on the ground that an inner was wrongly spotted- as ' magpie.' He gained his point, and this point may be worth having before the week is over."