E.A. Games 5 Fund. 
The Annual consideration of the E.A. Games’ Fund will be taken after those of 
the E.A. Institution and Charities at the Eoyal United Service Institution on 
Friday, 11th June, 1897. The hour will be about 4 p.m. The Committee of 
the Games’ Fund intend to ask the Meeting to allow them to give each year that 
they think fit a grant to the Eegimental Point-to-Point Eaces’ Committee for the 
provision of a small prize to the winner of each regimental race at that meeting. 
The Games’ Fund Committee hope there will be a good attendance of sub¬ 
scribers interested in the Point-to-Point Eaces and think that in extending the 
benefits of the Fund as they ask they are doing their best to encourage cros 
country riding in the Eegiment. 
M A IT A. 
So many officers of the Eegiment have put in some portion of their service at 
Malta that a few Eegimental notes from there will probably be of interest. 
Taking social matters first. The past winter season has been busier even than 
usual and all the hotels have been crammed throughout the winter. 
The E.A. and E.E. Mess gave a really splendid ball on the 22nd February and 
advantage was taken of the wooden floor and the decorations to have a smaller 
dance on the following night, the hosts on this latter occasion comprising about 
twenty officers, both E.A. and E.E. A great feature of the decorations was the 
effective installation of the electric light, which displayed to the best advantage 
the noble proportions of the old Auberge. 
The Mess has been very full all this year, the E.A. companies being much more 
up to strength than of old. Even Captains—a species of great rarity two or three 
years ago—have been encountered lately in strong coveys of ten or twelve. The 
large increase in the establishment of officers E.A. at Malta, contemplated in this 
year’s Estimates, will render the present Mess accommodation quite inadequate 
and it seems probable (speaking without authority) that the out-messes at Tigne 
and Eicasoli will then be set on an independent footing or given some sort of 
official recognition. 
The E.A. Stable Club now is very flourishing. The original founders will no 
doubt be glad to hear that of the £500 borrowed from Cox & Co. in 1888 
only £180 still remains due, together with the £100 borrowed locally in 1892 
for the extension of the stables. A most acceptable grant of £50 has been 
received from the E.A. Games’ Fund, which it is proposed to expend in adding a 
much needed forage store. 
A pony clnb has also just been started to assist the younger officers in defray¬ 
ing the initial expense of providing themselves with ponies. A respectable num¬ 
ber of non-playing as well as well as of polo playing subscribers has been already 
secured and many of the last joined subalterns are now being entered to polo 
who otherwise would have been deterred by the £20 or so down which they 
would have had to find to start a pony. It is too soon yet to pronounce on the 
success of this new club, but with judicious buying on the part of the Committee 
it should prove of marked benefit to the Eegiment here before next year’s Polo 
Tournament comes round. 
The polo team this year has suffered severely from the constant changes neces¬ 
sitated by the successive departures of Major Guise, 2nd Lieutenant Murcli and, 
finally, Captain Williams-Wynn. The last-named, as captain and back of the 
