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“ The Value of Mobility for Field Artillery,” by Major E. S. May, 
E.A., paper covers, price 3d. 
“ The Young Officer’s c Don’t,’ or Hints to Youngsters on Joining,” 
by an Officer E.A., price 7d. 
The two Numbers of “ Nature ” containing Professor C. V. Boys’s 
Lecture on “ Photography of Plying Bullets,” fully illus¬ 
trated, price 8d. 
Examination questions in (c), (e?), and (e) set in the four examina¬ 
tions ending May 1893 :— 
Captains (c) and ( d ) ... price Is. Id. 
Lieutenants (c) ( d ) and ( e ) price Is. Id. 
Tables of Four-Figure Logarithms, pocket edition, mounted on 
linen, price 3d. 
Lithographic plates of Field Artillery Harness stripped and laid 
down for inspection, price for pair (lead and wheel), Id. 
A Correspondent writes :— 
Eeaders of Captain Oliver’s article on Madagascar in the United Service 
Magazine for November, will have noticed that the Hova Artillery is commanded 
by a Major Graves, late of the Eoyal Artillery. I do not think this officer is to 
be identified with any of the same name in Kane’s list, but that his E.A. service 
was in the ranks of “ D ” (now “ H ” Battery) “ A ” Brigade, E.H.A., under the 
assumed name of Lowther. 
I joined the Battery as junior subaltern in January 1877, just after it returned 
home from India. Lowther was then No. 2 of my No. 3 gun detachment, his 
friend Blake being the Sergeant of No. 4 Sub-division, they were both men of 
good birth and education, and had been clerks together in the Bank of Ireland. 
Lowther afterwards became acting-bombardier, but did not hold the stripe long, 
owing to the authorities getting wind of a boxing competition held in the riding- 
school one Sunday afternoon, in which Lowther represented the E.H.A., his 
opponent being the champion of the Hussar regiment then in Woolwich. Blake’s 
family had some connection with the 17 th Lancers, and this enabled him to get a 
transfer for himself and Lowther to that regiment just before it embarked for 
Natal, early in 1879, Blake resigning his sergeant’s stripes ; and two very smart 
Lancers they looked, in their new uniforms, when they came to say good-bye to 
their old battery. 
Lowther remained in Natal when the regiment went on to India, and I next 
heard of him as an officer of the Cape Mounted Police, serving under his own 
name of Graves, and somewhere about ten years ago I heard that he had gone to 
Madagascar and obtained employment in the Hova army. There is little doubt 
that it is the former Gunner Lowther who, in command of the Hova Artillery, is 
destined to played a prominent part in the coming war. 
GOLF. 
ROYAL ARTILLERY v. ROYAL ENGINEERS. 
The following conditions have been agreed upon by the Games’ Fund Com¬ 
mittees of the Eoyal Artillery and Eoyal Engineers, as those under which an 
Inter-regimental Golf match shall be played. 
1. That one match be played annually. 
2. That the “ Green ” on which the match is to be played should be settled by 
