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mutual agreement from year to year. The first match to be played at either 
Sandwich or Littlestone, with preference to the former. 
8. That the match be played, if possible, during the month of April (soon after 
the spring meeting of the club on whose “ Green 53 it has been decided to play it). 
4. That the number of players a-side be eight. 
5. That all officers on full-pay or half-pay, awaiting employment, be eligible to 
play. 
6. That single and foursome matches be played (18 holes each). 
7. That before the match, lists of players on each side be prepared, giving the 
names of the players in order of merit, and that ( a ) for the single matches the 
players be paired against each other according to these lists (No. 1 E.A. playing 
No. 1 11.E. and so forth), and that ( b ) for the foursome matches, the pairs to play 
together, on either side, be taken in order of merit from the above-mentioned lists 
(Nos. 1 and 2 E.A. playing Nos. 1 and 2 11.E., and so forth). 
8. That the side winning the greater number of holes (results of single and 
foursome matches being added together) wins the match. 
9. That the match be played under the “local rules ” and “ bye-laws 33 of the 
club on whose “ Green 33 it is played. 
The Committee of the E.A. Games 3 Fund will shortly send out to every E.A. 
Mess at home, and to such individual officers as may ask to be supplied with a 
copy, a notice of the rules governing the selection of the E.A. side. 
SHOEBUIMTNESS. 
In compiling a catalogue of the Library in the Eoyal Artillery Mess, Shoebury- 
ness, it has been found that many volumes are missing, and it is probable that 
most of these have been taken away accidentally. The Secretary will be very 
much obliged if any officers finding such volumes among their books will return 
them, addressed to 
The Secretary, 
Eoyal Artillery Library, 
Shoeburyness. 
WOOLWICH. 
At Woolwich, on November 1st, the centenary of “E” Troop, E.H.A., was 
celebrated by “ E 33 Battery, now stationed there. 
All the officers, N.-C.O.’s. and men who were on leave returned for the day ; 
and at 7 p.m. the whole battery, with a considerable number of N.-C.0. 3 s and 
men who had formerly served in it, with their wives and a few friends, sat down 
to dinner to the number of 280, in the garrison gymnasium, which had been lent 
for the occasion. It had been decorated with flags, and the names of the battles 
in which the troop had taken part; a stage had been put up at one end of the 
room, and in the gallery a portion of the regimental band, under Sergeant-Major 
Walker, played a selection of music during dinner. 
At a quarter to eight the officers'of the battery took their seats on the stage, 
accompanied by Generals Lynedoch Gardiner and King, Colonels Elton and 
England, Lieut.-Colonels Wallace and Blaksley, Major Balfour, and Captains 
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