These prizes—seven in number—are given, as the name would imply, as consolation to those seven competitors who, having shot right through the meeting and made fairly good scores, have won nothing or perhaps only one third or a fourth prize. All winners of a first or second or two prizes, the Gold Cross, or the first prize in the rifting' Aggregate during this meeting are barred from the Consolation. These aggregates comprise the total scores made in five competitions, viz., the N. R. A. Medal, Insurance, Ladies' Prize, Chinese Merchants', and Home Guard—84 shots in all, and the highest possible score is 420 points, The shooting at the meeting, notwithstanding the fact that during most of the time the weather was favourable, was not what it should have been, and 317 points, or an average of 3.77 per shot for the Ist Consolation Aggregate, cannot be called first-class, The winners' names and scores are follows Ast.—Bat.S.M. Cameron 2nd.—Priv. Gibson
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