The conditions are seven shots and one compulsory sighter at 200, 500, and 600 yards, and the eight highest scorers will constitute the team.
Circular targets are to be used, and competitors must provide their own ammunition.
So much interest is being taken in the competition throughout the Empire that the proprietors of the Daily Mail have decided to increase the number of prizes.
The prizes now being offered are:-
A hundred guinea cup to the winning team in the whole Empire; to be held for 12 months, unless won twice in succession.
A fifty guinea cup to be won outright each year in the British Empire.
A fifty guinea cup to be won outright each year in the British Isles.
The members of the first three teams in each section will receive a silver medal each, and the members of the fourth, fifth, and sixth teams will receive a bronze medal each.
A solid silver spoon will be given to each member of the most successful team in every section of the Empire from which more than five entries have been received - that is, if five teams from New Zealand compete the members of the top team will each receive a silver spoon.
It is to be noted that competitors for these Empire trophies must be in uniform.
- At a general meeting of members of the Forbury Park Racing Club last night it was resolved to wind up the affairs of the club.
There was a credit balance of 72, less about 3 of outstanding liabilities; and it was decided to vote 60gs of this to the Tahuna Park Trotting Club and the remainder to the secretary for the liquidation of liabilities and as compensation for his services during the period that operations have been suspended.
A motion to hand the surplus over to the Dunedin Hospital received scant consideration, being supported only by Messrs H. Shrimpton and F.W.Mitchell, its mover and seconder respectively.
There is a probability of an effort being made to upset the decision arrived at regarding the disposal of the surplus funds. - ODT, 16.5.1908.
