3 
The Commanding Officer communicates to them the range as given by the 
range-takers, and signals to the batteries to come up. As the battery approaches 
Sectional officers will gallop out about 200 yards in front and join the Battery 
Commander, who rapidly points out the target to them. They then make for 
their sections. The layers remain mounted with their sub-divisions.” 
KOYAL ARTIM.EIIY BAWD CONCERTS IN LOUfBOIV. 
Ton the last four years the Band of the Royal Artillery has given four Concerts 
annually at St. James’s Hall—two in the winter and two in the spring—which 
have been so cordially supported by officers of the Regiment as to more than pay 
their own way. The balance over and above expenses incurred for hire of 
Hall, etc (about R50 per concert) is divided among the bandsmen, the band¬ 
master alone excepted, Cavaliere Zavertal having hitherto declined to look upon 
these entertainments in any other light than that of a pleasant duty. 
At the concert of the 18th November last, the number of names in the ballot 
(exclusive of late applicants) exceeded the number of reserve seats in the house, 
and an extra row of 82 seats was taken from the front of the area and added to 
the stalls. At the last concert (that held on the 2nd December) nearly the whole 
of the area, viz., 132 seats, was converted into stalls, and even so a number 
of late applicants could not be accommodated. 
Friends of bandsmen, War Office clerks, and non-commissioned officers and 
men of the Regiment, are supplied with seats gratis, to the extent of 200 in the 
area and 200 in the gallery, and tickets for these parts of the house are in as 
great request and as much appreciated as those for any other. 
The following table will serve to show how rapidly the popularity of these 
performances has increased since they were first inaugurated in May, 1889 : — 
Date of Concert. 
Number 
of sub¬ 
scribers. 
Seats 
sold. 
Representing. 
Remarks. 
£ 
s. 
d. 
1889. 
1st May. 
216 
48 
12 
0 
7 Each subscriber charged 4/6 
8th May. 
219 
49 
6 
6 
) for five tickets. 
1890. 
l^th May . 
213 
1096 
82 
4 
0 
7 Each ticket 1/6 to the limit 
23rd May . 
210 
1127 
84 
10 
6 
) of five per subscriber. 
21st November . 
235 
1114 
83 
11 
0 
5th December . 
236 
1122 
84 
3 
0 
1891. 
22nd April . 
246 
1164 
87 
6 
0 
29 th April . 
249 
1182 
88 
13 
0 
21st November . 
257 
1173 
87 
19 
6 
5th December . 
252 
1160 
87 
0 
0 
1892. 
26th February . 
168 
763 
57 
4 
6 
7 Notices of these concerts were 
20th April ... .. 
229 
1033 
77 
9 
6 
j issued in the leave season, 
18th November . 
270 
121 i 
91 
1 
0 
and the former was held too 
2nd December . 
301 
1340 
100 
10 
0 
early in the year. 
The band fund makes no profit out of the transaction, but when the proceeds 
have been unusually large it has been the custom to reserve a portion for the 
purchase of new and extra good instruments for solo players. Nothing, how- 
