NOTES 
FROM 
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 
DOVER. 
Captain J. P. DuCane and 2nd Lieut. W. P. L. Davies liave joined No. 2 Com¬ 
pany, and Captain J. D. Anderson lias joined No. 17 Siege Train Company. 2nd 
Lieut. W. E. Manley has proceeded in charge of the usual summer detachment 
to Newhaven Port. 
An excellent portrait of the Duke of Cambridge has recently been presented by 
H.R.H. to the II.A. Mess, and Major-General Hoste, C.B., who commanded the 
R.A., South-Eastern District, from 1877-81, has kindly presented a framed 
photograph of himself as an addition to the collection of portraits of Colonel’s-on- 
the-Staff. To make this collection complete since the appointment of the first 
Staff Colonel 11.A., South-Eastern District, in 1861, only four are required, those 
of Colonel Burke Cuppage, 1861-64; Colonel Ormsby, 1864-66; Colonel 
Elwin, 1866-68 ; and Colonel Eaton, 1868—72. The Mess Committee would be 
very grateful for any assistance in obtaining any or all of these four portraits. 
The It.A. Officers, Dover, turned out in great force to assist in welcoming 
Lord Roberts on his arrival at Dover on 6tli May; the top of the Admiralty Pier 
was crowded, while below were the Mayor and Corporation, Major-General Lord 
William Seymour and the Head-quarter Staff, a great number of Officers of the 
Garrison, and several from Shorncliffe, Canterbury and Walmer. The R.A. 
formed an avenue through which Lord Roberts passed, accompanied by Lady 
Roberts, the Mayor and Lady Crundall, Lieut. Purse, R.A., A.D.C., &c., &c. A 
procession of carriages conveyed the party to the Town Hall, where an address 
was presented to Lord Roberts, and luncheon served. The gallant General 
looked extremely well and was evidently pleased with his reception. 
HALIFAX, N.S. 
Colonel H. de S. Isaacson has been appointed Colonel-on-the-Staff to com¬ 
mand the R.A. in British North America, vice Major-General Ryan promoted, 
but has not yet joined. 
Lieut.-Colonel Saunders has rejoined from four months 5 leave of absence in 
England and assumed temporary command of the R.A. 
The new C.R.E., Colonel E. P. Leach, Y.C., C.B., has arrived from England. 
On 12th April Major D. C. Carter, R.A., arrived here, on his way to Bermuda, in 
charge of a draft, and was duly forwarded by first steamer, having been looked 
after during his stay by two old friends, to whom his appearance in the Western 
Hemisphere was a great treat. 
Two German men-of-war, the “ Kaiserin Augusta 55 and “ Seeadler,” put into 
Halifax for a couple of days to coal on their way to the New York celebration. 
The Newfoundland Division of the British North American Pleet has arrived 
at Halifax on its way to the Fisheries, It consists of the “ Cleopatra,” 
