The papers received from Hongkong contain an account of the shooting there on the 20th ult. in the rifle match between Kobe, Hongkong and Shanghai. Strange to say, both the Daily Press and the China Mail speak of the match as one between Hongkong, Kobe, and Yokohama, discarding Shanghai altogether, which, of course, isa mistake. We take the follow ing from the Daily Press:—The referees appointed by the distant corps were Messrs. E. L. Woodin, and H. J. H. Tripp. At half-past four o'clock in the mom: ing the weather appeared likely to be fine, and it was so for a short time. At six o'clock only three men were upon the range, and these were anxiously looking at the small bull they had to firat. Gradually the remainder of the team put in an appearance, the last man coming up at a few minutes after seven; the referees themselves were not present until five minutes to seven, and it was not until shortly before that time that it was known firing was not to commence until seven o'clock. About half-past six o'clock a shower of rain came down, and it was thought that it would continue all day, but after an hour it cleared up. Thanks to Inspector Cameron, who had very kindly erected a tent at the 250 yards range, no one got wet. At twenty minutes to eight o'clock the first shot was fired. The light was very bad, with a haze rising between the target and the firing point. The targets were quite wet and dull and the bulls'eye scarcely it was impossible to get a good sighting visible, Owing to the target being so dim
and the shooting was very bad, only one fair score being made. At the 200 yards range firing was commenced at' five minutes after eight. The light was similar to that at the first distance. At the 300 yards Corporal Dunman commenced at half-st eight o'clock. The light was now very right, the sun glaring down onthe top of the targets, and a haze rising from the ground between the butts and the range causing a false light which would deceive the best marksmen. Sergeant-Major Whitehead, Corporal MacCallum, and Gunner Flannagan did not fire until the afternoon. The weather was again anything but good for shooting. The light was dark and bad, and occasional showers came down, Sergeant-Major Whitehead comes off with the highest score, namely eighty-one out of a possible hundred and five. Gunner Flan-nagari scored but one point more than Gunner Boyd.
The following are the scores 10 2 20 9 300 yards, & yards. yards, in Average per shot, 2.946, The account published by the Hiogo News of the shooting of the team there on the 20th ult. states that the weather was on the whole very favourable; though in the morning there was rather a strong breeze, but in the afternoon it was very slight.' Messrs. Thornicrait, Skipworth, Sim, and Goodison fired in the morning, between six and eight o'clock; and Messrs. Gill, Oestmann, Cann, and Vivanti fired in the afternoon, from five to six. The shooting shows a slight improvement on the agureyate compared with the match in October, in which the total was 631, while Yesterday's total was 642, In the last match
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