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HALIFAX, N.S. 
The past month lias been one of departures and farewells. Captain Earmar, 
E.A., headed the exodus by going home in the mail steamer of 18th March, to 
join the Inspection Staff at Woolwich, to which he has been appointed from No. 
3 Company, Western Division, Halifax. 
A big farewell dinner, of forty covers, was given, on 22nd March, in the E.A. 
and E.E. Mess to Major-General Eyan, E.A., and to Lieut.-Colonel Eolph and 
the Officers of the 1st Battalion Leicestershire Eegiment, which was a very 
special and festive occasion. Major-General Eyan had just vacated the com¬ 
mand of the E.A. in British North America, and left next day for Ireland via 
New York. He is the first Colonel-on-tlie-Staff who has been removed from 
this station on promotion to Major-General, and so, in addition to the single 
gnn Avhicli is always fired here after dinner on the departure of any member 
of the Mess for good, a salute of 11 guns (models, but noisy) was fired 
from the Mess verandah by Lieut. Macgowan and the Assistant Instructor^ 
in-Gunnery. The departure of the Leicestershire Eegiment for the West Indies 
in a day or two made the occasion a still more notable one, especially as 
the relations between the E.A. and E.E. and that Eegiment during its two years 
at Halifax have been, and are, of the most cordial and friendly description; 
arrangements were made by the hosts to seat every officer in the Eegiment who 
could manage to be present instead of the conventional six or eight. The toasts 
of the evening were “ Major-General Eyan” and “ Colonel Eolph and the Officers 
1st Leicestershire Eegiment,” but others followed, and speeches were made by 
Colonel Hill, E.E., Major-General Eyan, Colonel Eolph, Majors Maycock, Bor, 
Leader and Brady, and Capt. Boileau, who has known the 17th for 15 years. 
On 23rd March the hired transport Jelunga arrived from Bermuda with the 1st 
Battalion King’s Eegiment for Halifax on board. She is one of the “ British 
India Steam Navigation ” line, and is a fine, large, comfortable vessel with a speed 
of 15 knots. 
On March 25th, Major Crookenden, E.A., returned from leave in England, and 
assumed temporary command of the E.A. in British North America. He is now 
the senior Major in the Eegiment. 
It is stated on private authority that Colonel Isaacson has been named to 
succeed Major-General Eyan as Colonel-on-the-Staff, but he has not joined yet, 
nor even been gazetted. 
On 1st April, Major Waldron, E.A., D.A.A.G., sailed for England in the mail 
steamer Sardinian , in command of a large party of time expired men, invalids and 
details of various regiments to hand over at Liverpool. On the termination of 
the duty he will take short leave of absence at home. 
On April 4th a farewell dinner was given in the E.A. and E.E. Mess to Lieut.- 
Colonel Arthur Hill, who is removed from C.E.E. at this station, on completion 
of five years, and whose departure is much regretted by officers of all ranis of 
both corps. On April 7th, a large afternoon “at home” was given in the Mess, 
in honour of Mrs. Hill, and next day “ the happy couple ” sailed for England in 
the mail steamer Labrador. 
A correspondent writes:—Being in Lome on the King’s Birthday (14th 
March) I availed myself of the opportunity of observing how reviews on such 
occasions are conducted in Italy. An officer of the artillery, who had been per¬ 
mitted to show Lord Denbigh and myself over the barracks, stables, etc., a short 
