The Monthly Cup was fired for on Saturday morning and was won by Gunner J. MacDonald, There were thirteen com. petitors, The following are the scores of 40 and over Gun. MacDonald Bomb, Crank Gun. Grimes Anderson Kelly 2355222-21 232432420 41 Dr, Swanstrom 20 4502442-21 41 collected. Then all of a sudden the door plates are toru down and the taxing given up. Such in part has been the vacillating policy of the Council.
Further it has discouraged building and the extension of the Settlement in this, the only direction possible, by warning the owners of lots not to build. It seems strange to say such a thing of men, esteemed wise enough to be elected on the Municipal but they actually warned people Id, that is on their own laud, and now elaimthat because of they have no right to their lau is the law of the Settlement, as sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander," I will warn them not to build on the valuable land in the Hankow and Honan Roads and other parts of the Settlement ard then take possession of In these hard times it would esx, But neither they hold their land by so slight a tenure nor can they be so easily driven from it.
The Settlement has fairly grown, noti these impediments, till it has reached the Rifle Range, and the range might with almost us much propriety be removed to the Nanking Read as continued where it is.
Tt has done service for some thirty years and if so important and useful us some think, it has over and over paid for itself. In the last Municipal Report it is set down agonly Tls. 708.73 including "the marker's house."
As you well say in your able leader, "It will be necessary site for the' rai with wh And the ssu wer the better, for it lias ceased to be a nuisance, to become a positive menace. The balls not only enter the walls and fencesof residents but even their houses.
Besides if a railway train shot out bullets on each side as it passed " second one would never pass that way.
Te is true the range was here befure some of the present proprietors purchased their land, but not all, However, the land on each ride was here before the range was made and all must concede, that it was not right to fire past and over the adjoining land unless they "requited" that tov, So that feom the first day a gun was fired on the range, no one has ever had a right thus to trespass on the adjoining lots which the Council do not profess either to have bought or "acquired, Excuse me if I also take issue with you as tw the absolute necessity of the rage. The Vilunteers could get all the drill necessary without target practice. Indeed it in a question whether they will ever be of any service, and if we wre not unnecessarily wasting five or six thousand taels each year, By no means all of the corps take wu interest in the target firing and I am told those who do, louk upon it tore as sport than anything else.
Thanking you in advance for giving this a place in your valuable and interesting columns and hoping that it may in some small way help to put this matter in a correct light, Lam, ete, 28th June.
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