3 
Dover was played at Deal, on 14th October, resulting in a win for the E.A. by 
17 holes. The individual matches were as follows :— 
K.M.L.I. 
Holes. 
E.A. 
Holes. 
Major Hungerford .. 
. 3 v. 
Colonel Lloyd. 
. 0 
Capt. Trotman . 
. 0 v. 
Major Darby . 
.. 1 
n Pym. 
. 0 v. 
Capt. Stanton. 
. 11 
Lieut. Curteis . 
. 0 v. 
M aj or Maxwell 
. 2 
ii Ward. 
. 0 v. 
Capt. Cummings ... 
. 6 
Total . 
. 3 
Total 
.20 
The Mess Committee would most thankfully receive any books (standard works, 
books of reference, novels worth binding, &c.) to assist in forming a library, the 
want of which is much felt by officers living in the Castle. 
MAMA, 
Some time ago it was proposed that the E.A. officers who were then, and had 
lately, been quartered in Malta should in some way express their appreciation of 
the great courtesy shown by the officers Eoyal Malta Artillery in sending their 
band to attend the funerals of officers and men of the Eoyal Artillery, and to 
play at the E.A. and E.E. Mess at large mess dinners, and at other entertain¬ 
ments. 
A meeting was held, with Major-General Nicholson’s consent, at which it was 
determined to ask for subscriptions among all E.A. officers who were then, and 
had been within five years, quartered in Malta, so that a fund might be raised to 
purchase something suitable to present to the Eoyal Malta Artillery as an expres¬ 
sion of thanks. 
This appeal was very liberally responded to, and at a meeting held last spring 
it was found that sufficient funds had been raised to purchase a silver cornet for 
the band; and as it was considered that nothing more appropriate could be got, 
it was determined that the presentation should take that form. Cavaliere Zavertal 
was written to, and most kindly undertook to see that the instrument was a 
thoroughly good and suitable one, and in due course the cornet arrived, and it 
was determined to present it at a dinner to which all the officers of the Eoyal 
Malta Artillery were asked. 
Accordingly on the evening of the 9th (the Prince of Wales’s Birthday) Major- 
General Nicholson presented the cornet to Colonel Speranza, commanding the 
Eoyal Malta Artillery, as representing the Eegiment, in a very appropriate speech, 
in which he commented on the good feeling and sense of comradeship which has 
been steadily growing up between the two Eegiments, and explained the reasons 
which had led the officers E.A. to hope that the officers Eoyal Malta Artillery 
would do them the honour to accept this small token of good feeling on their 
part. 
Colonel Speranza, in accepting the gift on behalf of the Eoyal Malta Artillery, 
expressed his conviction that both the officers and men of that Eegiment. most 
warmly appreciated the sentiments which had actuated the officers E.A. in making 
it, and he was sure that the cornet would ever remain an heirloom in the regiment 
as a remembrance of good feeling in the past, and as a pledge of good comrade¬ 
ship in the future. 
It has not been possible to acquaint those subscribers not present in the island 
with what had been determined on from time to time, or to acknowledge their sub¬ 
scriptions by separate receipts, but it is hoped that this notice will satisfy them 
that their subscriptions have been duly applied to the object for which they were 
given in a way that will meet their approval. 
