The shooting for the Challe Saturday morning took place under very, favourable conditions, and semic exception. ally high scores. were made. Corporal Buchanan headed the score with 79, Priv. Loam being one point behind him. Sergt. Little made 45 out of a possible 50 at the long range, but not having done 80 weill at the short range he came only third on the list. Corp. Buchanan was handicapped 8 points, Priv. Loam 6, and Sergt, Little 14; the cup was therefore taken by Private Loam, and, this being the third time he has won it, it becomes his absolute property. Capt. Morrison was in command of the range, The scores were as follows wor FZ sworn, la io CHINESE SOLDIEUA IN FORMOSA, To the Editor of the Nonrn-Omixa Darty News, Srr,—Allow me, in justice to the Chinese soldiery in Tai-wan Fu, to call attention to ome remarks of a Correspondent in your inane of 5th March, who wri under date of 20th February. He says, "the conduct of the soldiery is becoming more and more alarming. They now enter mission Compound at all times and ride furiously about it, also going frooly nto and through the houses,"
To take the last statement first, let mo any thal it know anything of sol vito and through our hou a thing has never happened. Neither have knowledge of soldiers or of a single soldier entering the compound on horse back, much lo ug furiously about tributed in competition for a prizs pre- it. Nor, finally, has the conduct of the to warrant any expression like that lolo foundation for your Correspon-this that for a fow to come in fortunately we do not speak mandarin here, or we should have lad many excellent opportunities of pleasant conversation with them, and, wit to our inability to tell them our desires, they once or twice yielded to their curiosity and one or two of them found their way into a verandah, But they were never rude to us, and on our telling our Consul, Mr. Gregory, of the difficulty we were in from our ignorance of mandarin, he at once sent one of his mandarin-speaking sand to explain our wishes to the auidiers, anid from that day we have had no further trouble. I should add, moreover, that before our going to the Consul, he had himself some days previously intimated to us that if we were in any way troubled by the soldiers, he would gladly assist us.
You are aware that at present we have an unusual number of soldiers in Tai-wa Fa, and of course we cannot say that will not get give us trouble; but it would be unfair to them not to correct the impression produced by the language of your Correspondent, At the Mission Hospital
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