NOTES 
FROM 
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 
This is a great place for the enthusiastic Garrison Artillery officer. The well- 
laid plans, charts, carriages, and racers of men and mountings—Mountain, 
Field, Siege, Garrison and Coast Defence, 3-pr. to 30 ton—H.P. broadside, end- 
on, vertical, horizontal, and inclined, perched 1000 feet above, or sunk 10 feet 
below, sea level, “ gang aft agley,” owing to the trying climate, so that the 
artillery officer gains considerable experience here in repair and care of materiel. 
Luckily there are lots of us. Although it is the middle of the leave season 
and the height of the hot weather, two (single) companies have four officers each, 
and the third would be complete if two officers had not been invalided and one 
sent to a course. The 11.A. Staff is complete. Fourteen'we should muster if we 
were now bidden to give bon voyage to a new Commander-in-Chief—of Madras 
for example. The last occasion when this pleasant duty fell to our lot was when 
“Bobs, God bless him,” bid us a kind farewell. 
Armament and working pay are, alas! still in nubibus of Elysium, and soft 
promises pay for no passages by P. and O., nor. would have done so* before these 
were raised and the rupee lowered. However, we are having a very cool season. 
The monsoon has broken early. 
A local oar of vast body, mind and generosity, has presented a double out¬ 
rigger to the boating club. 
The new Golf Club-house is rising proudly from its foundations. Lieutenant 
Lethbridge holds the record for these links with 46. He performed a notable 
feat the other day by walking and swimming round the peninsula before break¬ 
fast. He only swam where he knew the cliff was unclimbable, even by him, and 
where lie hoped there were not many sharks. lie breakfasted at 7 p.m. and, like 
the Boojum, dined on the following day. 
The new barracks are occupied, and now all our men, except twelve, live on a 
hill of their own. 
Major Anderson, Commandant Poona Horse, died here on passage and was 
buried with military honours. All the officers of the Italian man-of-war in 
harbour attended the funeral ; a kindly compliment, which shews how well we 
stand with them. 
The Mess has been refurnished, and, as the officers of a wing of the South 
Wales Borderers live with us, we have a very pleasant party. 
CORK. 
The South of Ireland Military Tournament took place in the Agricultural Grounds 
on Saturday and Monday, the 3rd and 5th of June, and the It.A. quartered in the 
Cork District came off very well. In the final tug-of-war 28‘ Company Southern 
Division TLA. beat 17 Company of the same division, the other teams entered 
being from the Boyal Navy, the Koval Marines, and the Koyal Irish Con¬ 
stabulary (2). The line battalions constituted a separate class. In the Heads 
and Posts, Sergeants Price and Kirkbride took 2nd and 3rd prizes. Tent-pegging, 
with lance. Sergeant Parker 2nd prize. Tent-pegging, with sword,—1st, Ser- 
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