There has been a good deal of rifle com petition actually carried on by our Volun* teers, or the results of which have beea learned, duruig the past month. Fore most stands the match at Wellington, for the Champion Belt at the Colony, together with medals, and money prizes amounting to L.275 ; and which match resulted in . Otago men winning four out of the fi,?s prizes offered-—the o.her (the fourth), btiug taken by a Canterbury Volunteer. , This result is in every respect gra'ifyiag ta j Otagans. This Colonial corapetttioa ia four or five years old, in fact; but it wa3 only last year that the "Colony" could be ia:d to take an interest in it, or that the

competitors were brought together to fire. Then, the General Government decided

that there should be a " representative* for each of certain arbitrarily defined dis tricts, of which Otago formed two. The two men set up were Corporal Christie, of the Ea*t Taicri corps, and Corporal Taylor* of No. 2 (Bunedin) Company. Christie won the Belt, and Taylor was second prize* man. This year, the .Regulations were different. One representative was allowed (or each SO men who, in a preliminary competition, scored 20—hits and points— with five shots-at each'of three ranges— 400, 500, and 600 yard>. In Otago, 16& men competed, and 142 oi tbeioa scored 20 or more; so that Otago was entitled to gend four^^ repreaeatatiye^ There was • conditioo that bo ; poe cpold %* teatative who did not^core aft?P<»at 8 ? ***% the lour pesi^iW^^^^S^

OTA3O DAILI .mißS,' APRIL 20, IU7,

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THE BA N"K OF OTAGO (LIMI FED ) THE THmO DIVIDEND for the half. y<at endinsrSOsh Bcptrmber, 1866, at 'the rate of 6 cer cent, rer anoura,, i« now pay able at this omV-c asd tho Brancbes. Duncdfo, istb AptU, 1867.
