The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-07-13 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

BISLEY ARRANGEMENTS.  A number of alterations, based on past experience, have been made in this year's programme at Sisley. Last year, for the first time, the shooting for the Queen's Prize and all the principal contissta for Martini-Henry rifles were relegated to the second week of the meeting. This arrangement haa been modified by permitting Martini competitions, chiefly of the bidiurnal class, to take place throughout the fortnight. The content for the Queen's will still not begin till Monday week, and the squadding arrangementa have been accelerated, so that in the first stage each day's shooting, beginning at 9 a.m., will be finished by aft. moon gun-fire at 1 15. The experiment tried last year of reserving places for "lyre." in the leading Martini-Henry competitions has been abandoned in deference to the feeling that this was an unfair handicapping of the better shots. A hundred prizes of £1 each, however, will be given to "tyroe" in the Queen's competition, and another £lOO is to be added for distribution among ordinary competitors. Moreover, a special competition for "tyros " with the Martini-Henry at 500 yards has been arranged for, "unlimited" entries being allowed. Modifications have been made in the conditions of the Public Schools competitions. Hitherto the sergeantinstructors have in many cases "coached" their respective teams.and have sometimes even arranged the sighting for the competitors. This is not to be permitted in future, and only actual shooting members of a team or reserve men may coach or spot. Revolver shooting promises to attain a position than heretofore at the meeting. The Walsrode competition for military revolvers, at targets appearing and disappearing at intervals of )nly three seconds, should afford very useful practice with an arm in the management of which rapid sighting is so marked an essential. Since the first publication of the prize-list, too, another series for fly revolvers in which the target is shewn for 12 ,ecneids only has been added, and will count in the aggregates.  It will be disappointing to many to learn that daring the severe storms of Saturday and Sunday nly o•3in. of rain were registered in Loudon as ,ompared with 1.40 in. at Liverpool, and 1•221 n. at Shields. London, on the other hand, was again hotter than most Continenti.l capitals on Saturday, 83deg. Fehr. being registered in the shade between 8 and 9in the morning. The highest reading on Saturday, however, seems to have been 02.4eg. at Cambridge. Several days last week London was hotter than Lisbon or Rome.  Azoording to the Tangs Shanghai correspondent, Messrs. Archibald and Lund, who proceeded to Sting-Fu to recover the bodies of the murdered missionaries, have been sent back without them, in spite of the Viceroy's assurances. An indignation meeting has teen held at Ilankow. Firmness is required to obviate further outrages. At the Sommes Assizes sentence was passed on the robbers who stole 400,000 f. from M. Flandrin at Abbeville in August last year. After a protracted trial. during which it was proved that the thieves belonged to a gang which had their headquarters in I.)ridon, and numbered amongst their members ths Anarchists Placide Schouppe and Oustave Mathieu, the court condemned Crespin to eight years' penal s”rvitude, and Menem to seven years' solitary confinement.  Frequently rising, but always going down—a river.  When a river gets out of lts bed. does it kick the clothes off, or how ?  _ . When you see s storm brewing, you need not expect a very.delicious draught. Jones: "Brown, did you ever see a saw-li,h?" Brown: "No; but I once saw a sea-fish." links: "• good deal depends on your luck in whist." Waggles: "Yea; but your luck also depends on a good deal."