E.A. gave a useful and ornamental present, in tlie form of an egg-stand for the 
breakfast table. 
The effect of the recent reorganisation of the Garrison Artillery on this station 
is that the Armament Major and the Instructor Depression Range-Finding are 
abolished, and that No. 3 Company Western Division, commanded by Major 
Brady, is divided into two companies, called No. 3 and No. 23. As this company 
was formed* on the reorganisation of 1891 from three batteries, namely, Nos. 3, 
23 and 24, all of the Western Division, a financial coup has been effected, the 
public is saved the cost of the Officers, Staff-Sergeants, &c., of a battery, and 
No. 24 Western has disappeared from the face of the earth. These stirring 
events were marked at Halifax by the Officers of old No. 3 Company dining to¬ 
gether the day before the new order came into force, on the 30th April, when 
a special menu was prepared for the occasion, illustrated to show various events 
incidental to the change, while the company drums and fifes played in the R.A. 
Park between the ct first and last post.” 
The Garrison Artillery reliefs for 1894-5 have been received here with some 
surprise at this station. No. 23 Company Western Division, which recently put 
in seven years in the West Indies, and only arrived at Halifax from St. Lucia in 
1892, has been ordered back again to that undesirable island, and No. 3 Company 
Western Division has been ordered back to Bermuda, which was its last station 
before coming to Halifax in 1890. Nos. 1 and 20 Companies Western Division, 
which left here for Bermuda the same year, have been ordered back to Halifax 
again. 
Major Hodgson, the late Armament Major at Halifax, has been posted, “ on 
abolition,” to No. 20 Company Western Division at Bermuda, now under orders 
for this station as above stated. 
On 3rd May, the first salmon (weighing 15 lbs.) caught by an officer of the joint 
Mess was killed by Colonel Leach, R.E. The fishing this year has again been 
unusually late in opening, owing to the long and severe winter. 
On 8th May, Colonel Isaacson returned from his tour of inspection of the Royal 
Artillery in the West Indies, having been absent on duty from Halifax over two 
months. 
On 18th May, a sensational incident occurred on the banks of the La Have 
river, about 60 miles to the westward of Halifax, referred to as the “ Battle of 
Bridgewater ” in the local papers, which, as usual, gave a highly coloured account 
of the event in their own peculiar language. A military party, consisting of two 
Field Officers, a Captain and two soldier servants, who went salmon fishing, ac¬ 
companied by two ladies, wives of the said officers, found themselves in dispute 
as regards the fishing rights of a certain favourite pool near Davidson’s mills 
with a party of Nova Scotian settlers and Indians who were out in camp for the 
same purpose. From words they came to blows, and a free fight ensued. The 
opponents were five a-side, so the numbers were equal. The officers were strong 
and active, and one of the soldier servants happened to be the regimental bruiser, 
so the military eventually conquered, but not before one of the officers was 
gaffed in the arm by a salmon gaff, used against him as a weapon. The settlers 
being settled, were about to be thrown into the river and their tackle and boat 
destroyed when the mill hands marched out in a body and separated the com¬ 
batants. This they did under a mistaken impression as to the rights of the case, 
for which the <c mill boss ” afterwards apologised. The behaviour of the settlers 
was unwarrantable. They threw rocks into the pool when one of the officers was 
fishing, and sent out an Indian in a boat to beat the water with a pole. They 
had no rights whatever on the pool, it being a case of first comer having the right 
to fish, and the officers arrived there before them. “ After the Battle ” all made 
friends, but the settlers were taught a lesson, and the people of Bridgewater were 
all delighted that anyone should have been resolute enough to teach it them. 
