✨ Military Competition Rules and Land Court Notices
9th. Ties will be decided by the Winbledon Regulations of 1866, page 3, clause 13, and all disputed points will be decided by the Senior Officer present, whose decision will be final.
10th. Should any Competitor absent himself when his turn comes to fire, he is to forfeit his chance.
11th. The Prizes will be of two classes, "Provincial" and "District". The winners of the first and second Provincial Prizes are not entitled to a District Prize. Subject to the above Rules and conditions, the following Prizes will be awarded.
Prizes
Provincial
1st Prize ... £20, and a medal worth £5, to the best shot in the Province.
2nd Prize ... £15, and a medal worth £5, to the second best shot in the Province.
District
Wellington District, 215 Men.
1st Prize ... £10 0 0
2nd " ... 8 0 0
3rd " ... 7 0 0
4th " ... 5 0 0
5th " ... 4 0 0
6th " ... 3 0 0
7th " ... 2 0 0
8th " ... 1 0 0
Total ... £49 0 0
Hutt, Taita and Porirua Districts, 171 Men.
1st Prize ... £10 0 0
2nd " ... 8 0 0
3rd " ... 7 0 0
4th " ... 5 0 0
Wairarapa and Castle Point, 285 Men.
1st Rifle Prize ... £10 0 0
2nd " ... 8 0 0
3rd " ... 7 0 0
4th " ... 5 0 0
5th " ... 3 0 0
6th " ... 2 0 0
1st Prize for Breech Loading Carbine ... 7 0 0
2nd " ... 5 0 0
3rd " ... 3 0 0
Total ... £50 0 0
Wanganui and Rangitikei District, 104 Men.
1st Prize ... £10 0 0
2nd " ... 7 0 0
3rd " ... 5 0 0
4th " ... 3 0 0
Total ... £25 0 0
Cadet Prizes
Conditions – Five shots at a range of 150 yards with Breech Loading Carbine, standing and kneeling only, without artificial rest, to be competed for by members of the Cadet Corps not exceeding seventeen years of age.
1st Prize ... £3 0 0
2nd " ... £2 0 0
W. Hickson,
Provincial Secretary,
Provincial Secretary's Office,
1st April, 1868.
Native Land Court
NOTICE OF TIMES AND PLACES FOR INVESTIGATING CLAIMS.
Notice is hereby given that the claims, on behalf of themselves and others, of the several persons whose names are mentioned in the first column of the Schedule hereunder written, to the several blocks of land, of which the names and localities are mentioned in the second column, the boundaries of which are published in the Kahiti o Niu Tirani, will be investigated at Greytown, Wairarapa, on the 12th of May next, and following days.
A. J. Dickey,
Chief Clerk.
Auckland, 14th March, 1868.
HE PANUITANGA KI NGA TANGATA E WHAI TAKE ANA KI TE WHENUA KIA MOHIOTIA AI TE WAHI ME TE RA E TU AI TE KOOTI HEI WHAKAWAI I O RATOU TAKE
Na, he Panuitanga tenei kia mohiotia ai, ko te take a nga tangata no ratou nga ingoa e mau nei i te rarangi tuatahi i raro nei, ki nga pihi whenua e mau nei i te tuarua o tenei pukapuka, a he mea whakahaere ki te Kooti Whakawa Whenua Maori ki Kereitaone Wairarapa a te 12 o nga ra o Mei, 1868.
Ko nga tangata katoa e whai tikanga ana mo enei whenua me haere ki reira, ka oti te whakawa.
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1868, No 11
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General Rules for Provincial Government Rifle Prizes
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🗺️ Notice of Times and Places for Investigating Land Claims
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey14 March 1868
Native Land Court, Land Claims, Greytown, Wairarapa
- A. J. Dickey, Chief Clerk