Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1877-07-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE WIMBLEDON RIFLE MEETING.  The shooting on Saturday was carried on under very unfavourable circumstances. A strong and variable wind blew from the left front of the targets, and throughout die day at frequent intervals there were heavy showers of rein, and these were not without influence on the attendance. Compared with former years, the number of Saturday visitors was small. Soon after morning gun fire the three competitors who at last tied with 81 points for the Prince of Wales' Badge and £lOO, Sergeant McAuslan, Private A. Ross, Canada, and Private R. Burgess, Ist Newcastle, proceeded to the 600 yards range to solve the problem. At the first round each of the three competitors missed the target. At the second round Burgess started with a magpie, McAuslan followed with a bull's-eye, and Ross again missed the target. At the third round Burgess and McAuslan made an outer each, Ross for the third time missing the target. This, of course, solved the difficulty, and McAuslan figures as the winner. The competition practically resolved itself into one for the post of honoui, apart from financial considerations, as the three competitors had arranged amongst themselves with regard to the division of the spoil. McAuslan figures this year, for a seoond time, in the Queen's fifty. He has now won the Prince of Wales' prize of .£loofor the second time. Last year he proved the victor with 16 points. Sergeant Bartlett, of the Royal Marine line of Infantry, who won the Alfred Prize with 33 out of a possible 35 marks, has secured the Snider Association Cup with the magnificent score of 49, at 200 yards, out of a possible 50; he also stood second foi the first Windmill Prize, at 200 yards, with a score of 34 out of a possible total of 35. In this competition Corporal J. Thompson. Durham, won £2. An interesting feature of the day's shooting was the competition for the National Challenge Trophy, shot for by the representatives teams of twenty for England, Scotland, and Ireland, seven shots at 200, 500, and 600 yards respectively, with the Snider. The prize consists of the challenge trophy, a magnificent piece of plate, valued at £l,OOO, sibscribed for in 1865 at the instance of Lieut.-Colonel , Lindsay, of the St. George's Rifles. .The competition took its rise from a match between England and Scotland, shot at Wimbledon in 1864. The next year an Irish team joined in the match, and the prize was then called " The Inter natibnal Enfield Trophy." As first given, according to the original rules, the competition was to take place in the country whose team had won it in the previous year. This rule was altered in 1876, the Scotch objected to the alteration, and no Scotch team competed this year. The trerhy was won by England, the score being England, 1,426; Ireland, 1,238.  A collision occurred about two miles south of the Carton Lightship on Friday morning, between the Cobden s, of Middlesbrough, and the Fawn fishing dandy, of Lowestoft; the latter being struck oa the port quarter, broke trawl beam, started several stanchions, and lifted the dock.  TETE Psxos Musoms.—The four prisoners charged with the Penge murder are mitered to be removed to Newgato to await trial at the Central Criminal Court. The Sessions commence on August Bth. It is uncertain whether Atka Rhodes will have sufficiently recovered to take her trial.