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Newfoundland Squadron of tlie North American Fleet, have put into Halifax on 
their way to the Newfoundland Fisheries from Bermuda. These men-of-war are 
looked on here as the harbingers of summer, and there is great rivalry between 
them and the French Division Navale de Terre Neuve , despatched annually from 
Cherbourg, as to which will first reach the fishing grounds. 
M/4LTA, 
At the Malta Garrison Athletic 
ing events :— 
100 Yards Flat Face. 
440 Yards Flat Face. 
120 Yards Hurdle Face. 
©BSTUJLK.Y. 
Major G. W. Howard-Yyse, Foyal Artillery (commanding the 1st Field Bat¬ 
tery at Meerut), died at Srinagar, Kashmir, on the 29th April, 1892, aged 88. 
He joined the Foyal Artillery 29th April, 1878, became Captain, 1st October, 
1882, and Major, 1st April, 1890. He served in the Afghan War in 1878-79, 
with the Candahar Force, and afterwards with the 2nd Division of the Peshawur 
Field Force (medal). 
Lieutenant J. A. Fich, F.H.A., entered the Regiment in 1885, four months 
before he completed his eighteenth year. The youngest officer who has joined 
since the Crimean War. Full of promise, a thorough horseman and gallant 
rider, he is a real loss to the Fegiment, as well as to the many brother officers 
and men to whom he had endeared himself. He died at Dmballa on 17th May 
of enteritis. 
Sports Corporal Morrison, F.A., won the follow- 
880 Yards Flat Face. 
Hop, Step and Jump (Army and Navy). 
One Mile Face. 
Colonel (temporary Major-General) W. H. Noble, half-pay, F.A., Superinten¬ 
dent of the Foyal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey, died at Thrift Hall, 
Waltham, on 17th May, 1892. In 1856 General Noble competed as a university 
man for and won a direct commission in the Ordnance Corps. He was then a 
student at Trinity College, Dublin, and had just taken his degree (B.A.), with 
honours in experimental sciences. In March, 1856, he was appointed a Lieutenant 
in the Foyal Artillery. In 1859 he took his Master’s degree (M.A.) in Trinity Col¬ 
lege, Dublin. In 1861 he was selected to succeed his namesake, Captain Andrew 
Noble, C.B., as Associate Member of the Ordnance Select Committee, for the 
purpose of carrying out ballistic and other scientific gunnery experiments. He 
served with the Ordnance Select Committee from 1861 until its dissolution in 
1868. He was then appointed to the staff of the Director-General of Ordnance, 
and subsequently became a member of the experimental branch of the Director of 
Artillery’s Department at Woolwich. He served in this capacity from 1865 to 
1876, during which time he was either a member or secretary of numerous 
Ordnance Committees, such as the Special Committee on Explosive Substances, 
Special Committee on Guncotton, Committee on Range-Finders, Special Com¬ 
mittee on Field Artillery Equipment, Committee on Iron Armour, etc. In 1876, 
after a period of 15 years’ continuous service on duties connected with scientific 
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