"This competition took place on Saturday last, in severely ce!! weather—so cold that several of the men found it difficult towards the close of their second series of shots (at 500 yards), to hold their rifles steady. A biting wind from the north blew freshly across the range, and this, combined with a dazzling sun right in front, made aiming still. more difficult. At the carly morning stage of the competition, matters were of course much worse in this respect but, notwithstanding, several spectators, including some ladies, were present. The surrounding scene—a thoroughly winter one—was certainly very attractive. Ice was plentiful on the adjacent ponds and small creeks, and a few yards from the rifle range in different directions many skaters were busily engaged in the indulgence of the healthful and (at times) graceful amusement. Snipe and teal, the latter not a frequent visitor to this locality, were also numerous, and a goodly number fell to the guns of a squad of sportsmen; the heavier reports of the double-barrels coming in at frequent intervals between the sharp cracks of the rifles. The retrievers, strange to say, seemed to prefer the latter, and so often came hunting to and fro and across the range as to impede the firing, and their owners at times had considerable difficulty in calling them cif.
As will be seen by the subjoined scores, the average of the rifle shooting was good, in spite of the adversity of wind and weather. Sergeant Tucker, who fired in the morning, made the highest score of the day, 46, out of a possible 70; but being a former' winner of the Cup was handicapped seven folds the new Cup, with a score of 41; points, and Private Johnston therefore
Private A. H. Baker coming next with 40, Some of the "young hands" also shot well, Private John Bailey (who had shot but once before at 500 yards' distance) makin; 83 points, and but for one miss woul have tied the winner, if not carried off the prize.—We hear talk of a challenge being shortly given by No. 2 ly to either No. 1 Company or the Joonys—twenty, or more, men aside—to come off in warmer weather and ata date from the present sufficiently distant to allow of ample practice, The following were the scores of the match on Saturday 200 36, Fae sds, Sogn 00 6-18 copied fran the oficial seo hoto—batt the figures are
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