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Eegister oe Target Practice — continued. Third Match. Number of Targets fired at, three. Eanges, 500 and 600 yards. Two shots at each Eange, any position. 23rd November, 1876.

BLACK TARGETS.

Total Points : Black sights on white target, 303 ; white sights on white target, 262 ; black sights on black target, 239; white sights on black target, 249.

REGISTER of JUDGING-DISTANCE PRACTICE, testing SOALL's Principle of Range Finding.

No. 5. Eeriy to the Eeport of Board of Officers, held at Hamilton, Waikato, 22nd November, 1876. Auckland, 25th January, 1877. The undersigned has to express his regret at his not being made aware of tho statements and objections contained in the report at the time the Board sat, so that he might have been enabled to answer them there and then; but as a period of near two months elapsed before ho obtained a Bight ot or knowledge of them, he feels compelled to reply, which he does with the greatest respect. And first he begs to say the last paragraph of the report does not state, "That in his letter to Lieut-Colonel Lyon, dated 13th November, 1876, the undersigned made it a sine qua non that money prizes should be obtained for the men, as an inducement for them to do their level-best under both systems; he feeling certain that, without some inducements to the men to obtain the highest arareffates, their prejudices would be sure to bias them in their firing. # The matches referred to iv paragraph marked F as not necessary, the undersigned considered the most important But as the weather was so extremely hot, and the members of the Board were so indisposed to proceed to the range, he of course could not press them.

White Sig: White Sights. Black Sigh'S. Black Sig: m. ITS. 200 Yards. 03 — a o a B 300 Yards. j a 400 Yards. a 'o Ph [3 m a "o Ph "3 43 o B Bank and Name. Points per Shot PointsperShot 5 S tTi PointsperShot PointsperShot 1 I 2 3 1 2 3 2 3 1 2 3 2nd Class Sergeant E. Jones Constable T. Cassidy Constable W. H. Kelly ... Constablo W. HurryConstable W. H. O'Neill Constable G. Smith ...' 0 0 8 0 0 8 0 (I 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 2 0 2 0 3 0 14 o B (I II 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 4 (I (I 0 2 II 2 0 0 ii 5 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 3 3 0 o 2 it 0 3 0 0 6 0 3 12 0 11 I 2nd Class Sergeant E. Jones Constablo T. Cassidy Constable W. H. Kelly ... Constable W. Hurry Constable W. H. O'Neill Constable G. Smith 2 0 (i 2 0 2 0 8 2 2 3 4 /ir te Tae 2 o 3 0 2 4 4 0 3 0 6 2 im o o 4 0 0 2 tETS. 3 0 0 2 0 0 3 3 0 2 4 3 2 0 0 0 2 2 11 4 2 0 2 4 .> 7 4 3 2 4 4 0 0 3 0 3 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 ... ! 0 ... I 3 6 ... I 2 ... 0 0 11 24 20

Coreect Dist. .nce in Yards. Coke: :ct Distance in Yaeds. 200 300 400 O o rH g $2 501 100 230 330 ii Ph 1 t-i M Rank and Name. 120 Ans. pt . A£ 9- Bts Wpts 3 A"8- Pts 4 Ans. 1 Bts Ans" Ipts Ans. pt| .' A™- Bt, I 4 Constable J. L. Croker ... Constable F. Carthy Constable J. Henderson ... Constable P. F. HcLean ... ConstableW. H. O'Neill... Constable T. O'Connell ... Lieut.-Colonel W. C. Lyon . Captain J. HePherson ... Captain Harshall J. C. Soall 150 300 110 100 120 150 0 0 2 0 8 0 270 400 250 350 230 180 0 0 0 0 0 0 310 438 340 500 300 350 2 0 0 0 3 0 500 450 370 520 500 400 0 0 1 11 0 2 2 0 3 0 6 2 590 500 500 600 600 550 550 600 500 ll 2 2 ii 0 0 0 (I 2 0 2 2 I) O ll 2 0 2 0 120 80 90 90 2 0 0 0 280 300 300 300 0 0 0 (I 450 500 400 400 0 0 0 0