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of the now well-known First Hants Light 

 Horse, or, it is more commonly called, the 

 Droxford troop ; Colonel Bower, to whom the 

 great success of the corps is justly to be attri- 

 buted, being a resident in that village, and his 

 efforts being efficiently seconded by Mr. Charles 

 Sartoris, of Warnford Park. Mr. Smith holds 

 the post of guide in this corps ; and though he 

 served in his father's company nearly sixty 

 years before, he has shown that he is an '^ effi- 

 cient member," and so earns the Government 

 grant ; for on a comparatively recent occasion 

 he hit the target at 900 yards with the short 

 rifle of the corps, and afterwards hit the target 

 twenty times following, scoring 32 points. 

 Proof positive of good eye and good nerve at 

 75 ! The late Lord Herbert of Lea, who had 

 often himted in the Craven when Mr. Smith 

 was Master, took great interest in this mounted 

 corps, and he wrote to his friend, promising to 

 visit him at Droxford on his way home after 

 the session of Parliament, in order to witness 



