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10. Winners of 1st and 2nd Prizes in the 1st Set
    are debarred from competing in the 2nd Set.

SIZE OF TARGETS.
11. For the District and 1st Set Colonial Prizes,
6 x 6 feet; bull's eye, 2 feet square; centre, 4 feet
square. For the 2nd Set Colonial Prizes, at 200 and
300 yards, 6 x 4 feet; bull's eye, 8 inches square;
centre, 2 feet square. At 400 and 500 yards, same
size as 1st Set. For the 3rd Set, Hythe Targets.
For the 4th Set, same as 2nd Set at 200 and 300
yards.
12. The cost of a saloon cabin passage to and from
Dunedin (calculated at the rates charged for
return tickets) will be allowed to the competitors,
together with a sum of ten shillings a day to each
non-resident during his unavoidable detention at
Dunedin.

General Rules to be observed in firing for the
General Government Prizes.
13. The long or medium Enfield rifle, the Lancaster
rifle, and the breech or muzzle loading carbine, as
issued by the General or Provincial Governments,
must alone be used. Competitors using the carbine
at the 400, 500, and 600 yard ranges, will be allowed
one mark at the first range, two marks at the
second, and three marks at the third range.
14. The minimum pull of trigger to be six pounds.
15. Ammunition will be provided by the Govern-
ment.
16. The senior officer on the ground may direct
the examination of the arms used by competitors, at
any time before, during, or after the firing; and
should any arm be found to have been tampered
with, or the pull of trigger to be below the minimum,
the competitor using such arm will be disqualified,
and his score disallowed.
17. In the scoring, the value of shots will be—
Bull's eye, 4; centre, 3; outer, 2.
18. The firing for Government Prizes should be
superintended, if possible, by a Field Officer; and in
the absence of any Field Officer, there must be
(exclusive of any Medical Officer) at least two
Commissioned Officers on the ground.
19. A list, giving each competitor a number only,
will be given to the officer and marker; another list
will be made out with each competitor's name and
corresponding number on it, to be kept by the senior
officer stationed at the spot where the competitors
fire from.
20. The senior officer present will appoint one
person to call the names of competitors at the place
of firing, and another to remain with the marker
near the target.
21. The senior officer present will appoint a
marker, who will be under the immediate supervision
of the officer appointed to remain near the target.
Markers will receive pay at the rate of 5s. per diem,
if not in the employ of the Government.
22. Each competitor will fire his whole number of
shots in the same day, unless the weather turns out
unfavourable, when the senior officer present may at
any time, at his discretion, postpone the firing until
the next favourable opportunity.
23. Should any competitor absent himself when
his turn comes to fire, he is to forfeit his chance, and
a shot is to be fired in the air (which the marker will
score as a miss), in order to keep the numbers on
the lists correct.
24. Any competitor leaving the ranges without
the permission of the Commanding Officer will be
disqualified.
25. Any shots which touch the ground before
hitting the target (ricochets) are to be noted R. in
the column for misses.

26. Ties to be determined by Wimbledon Regula-
    tions, 1866, sec. 13.
27. All disputed points are to be decided by the
    senior officer present, whose decision will be final.
28. A return of the names of all competitors, with
    the number of marks scored by each, signed by the
    officer who superintended the firing and the Adjutant,
    is to be forwarded by the Officer Commanding the
    District, or by the Adjutant, to the Defence Office
    through the Officer Commanding at Dunedin, accord-
    ing to the accompanying form, as soon as possible
    after the firing has been concluded.
29. For preliminary private practice, ten (10)
    rounds of ammunition per man will be issued
    gratuitously, and fifty (50) rounds will be supplied
    at the rate of 4s. per 100.
30. The attention of the Commanding Officers and
    Adjutants is particularly called to the following rules
    to prevent accidents :—
    No competitor is to cap or cock his rifle before
    coming to the spot from which he is to fire.
    No competitor is to let the cock of his rifle down,
    when an unexploded cap is on the nipple, but
    to keep it at half-cock.
    Competitors, before firing, are to take a few paces
    in front of all lookers on, and to see that no
    objects are in the line of fire.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 19th January, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
make the under-mentioned promotions and
appointments, viz.:—

In the Armed Constabulary.
Acting Sub-Inspector Montagu Stopford to be Sub-
Inspector. Date of commission, 5th January,
1869.
Thomas William Porter to be Acting Sub-Inspector.
Date of commission, 5th January, 1869.

In the New Zealand Militia.
Major John Henry Herbert St. John to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel. Date of commission, 5th January,
1869.
Major James Fraser to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Date
of commission, 6th January, 1869.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

IN RE JAMES WALLACE'S ESTATE.

A MEETING of the Creditors in the above Estate
is appointed to be held at the offices of A. de
Brandon, Esq., on Monday, the 8th of February, at
noon, for the purpose of receiving from the Trustees
a Statement of Accounts, and other matters.

D. ANDERSON,
W. M. BANNATYNE,
Trustees to the Estate.

Wellington, 7th January, 1869.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership
hitherto subsisting between us the undersigned
David Clarkson and Richard Turnbull, as General
Merchants, Importers, and Storekeepers, at Timaru,
Rangitata, Temuka, and elsewhere, in the Province
of Canterbury, New Zealand, under the style or firm
of "Clarkson and Turnbull," was, on the seventh
day of December last, dissolved by mutual consent.
As witness our hands this fifth day of January, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

DAVID CLARKSON.
RICHARD TURNBULL.

Witness to the signatures of the said David
Clarkson and Richard Turnbull—Arthur Perry,
solicitor, Timaru.