Friday, 29th August.
4.—Tux "One Brians" Cur.—Presented. Ten shots to be fired at unknown distances without using the back sights, the competitor Making the highest score winning the cup. The first. three shots prone; second 3 shots kneeling, and the last 4 standing. Five prizes. Entrance fee, $1.
This was the first match of the description fired in shanghai, and should be commended tothe Volunteers for their competitions. No better test can be obtained, for should at any time the Police or Volunteers be required to turn out, there would not be time for painting fore-sights, The ranges for this cup were from 350 to 100 yards, the first three shots in the prone position, the second three kneeling, and the last four standing. The shooting on the whole was very good, fifteen shots only having missed the target. The cup was won by Serg. Turnbull. The following are the scores Tusp. Kluth P.S. Beaten McKenzie 7.—Tue Cove as 'The Club and Grifins' prizes were competed for on Tuesday morning under most unfavourable conditions as regards weather. Rain fell in torrents from beginning to finish, and at the last distance there was nothing for it but to make oneself as comfortable as possible in a pool of water.
There were only six griffins left, each of whom won a prize.
In the Club competition Sergt. Clarke came in for first honours with a very good score, made up with six hullo and an inner at 500 yards. P.C. Horley, who won the Griffins hands down, came 2nd God that they should die like flies; it i apathy of our rulers, and I will prove it. During the mouths of July and August, as far as Lean ascertain from pretty reliable sources, the deaths among the Chinese inhabiting the English, American and French concessions amounted to about five thousand. Of these the greater number have been Ningpoese, At present the Ningpo Guild-house, outside the West Gate, is filled up with coffins piled on top of each other like so many bales of cotton ina godown. The coffins are, as a rule, given by charitable institutions or charitably disposed individuals. The price for each from four to eight dollars. The boards of the coffin are very thin and the joints are loose and illitted. Little if any lime is placed inside the coffin, and chun am is as economically used to stop up the cracks. Now imagine two to three thousand of these ill-made, loose-jointed, and this boarded coffins, each containing a corpse filled with germs of disease and, in a decomposing state, all crowded into one place as is the case with the Ningpo
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