18 MAY 1901, Page 3

It may interest those of our correspondents and readers who

are supporters of rifle clubs, and who realise the importance of making the general population of this country acquainted with the use of the rifle, to know that the Spectator is giving a prize to be competed for at Bisley each year by rival teams of five drawn from rifle clubs. As the special object is to encourage village rifle clubs, no one will be able to belong to a competing team unless he is a tyro,—i.e., a person who has not won a prize before at Bisley. The Spectator, we may remind our readers, gave a prize to be shot for at Wimbledon some forty years ago—i.e., during the original Volunteer movement. Particulars as to the competi- tion will be found on page 741. The date of the competition this year is Thursday, July 11th.