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Should any other officers (not serving with batteries or companies) desire to be- 
come subscribers, they are requested to write to Messrs. Cox & Co. Their 
subscriptions will be very welcome, and will be acknowledged annually in the 
published accounts. 
Officers commanding batteries and companies would be doing a great kindness 
by letting the Hon. Secretary know their views, whether they are in favour of 
this suggestion or not, as early as possible. 
It was feared by some that we are likely to interfere with the Royal Artillery 
steeplechases. The success of both events this spring, proved, I think, that there 
is room in the regiment for both. 
The following conditions were agreed to at the General Meeting. 
The stewards to be the same as last year (with the addition of Lieut,-Volonel 
Yorke, the master of the R.A. drag hounds), with power to add to their number, 
viz :—Lieut.-Col. Wallace, R.H.A.; Lieut.-Col. O’Malley, R.A.; Lieut.-Col. 
Yorke, R.A.; Major Eustace, R.H.A.; Major Blewitt, R.A. ; Captain W. Paget, 
R.H.A.; Captain J. L. Smith, R.A. ; Captain J. B. Askwith, R.A.; and Captain 
C. G. Mackenzie, R.A., Aldershot, Hon. Secretary. 
The horses entered to be maidens (winners of the R.A. light weight and R.A. 
heavy weight race excepted), to have been the property of their owners since the 
Ist February preceding the race, and to have been regularly hunted by them during 
the past season. 
Other conditions the same as this year. 
The time and place and any other point which may arise to be left absolutely 
to the stewards, whose decision is to be final. Three stewards to form a quorum. 
“T should like to add the following to the above circular which, with the 
authority of the General Meeting of R.A. races, was sent to officers commanding 
batteries and companies. Most of the replies received have been favourable, and 
I think that some of the few adverse letters have been caused by a misconception, 
for which, I dare say, my clumsy wording has been responsible. 
The primary reason of the suggestion was a desire to make individual subscrip- 
tions as small as possible, the secondary reason to give the secretary some line to 
go on, as to the probable amount of his subscription list for the coming year, so 
that the financial part of the business might work automatically. Of course it 
was never intended that a commanding officer should be asked to pledge the credit 
of his battery, even to the amount of one sovereign, indefinitely. He was only 
asked to promise that amount for one year. As soon as the subscription was dis- 
approved of by the officers of the battery it could be withdrawn, 
All that was asked was that this battery should undertake to subscribe £1, the 
matter of collection being left entirely to the officers of the battery, and the sug- 
gestions were circulated with the belief that all our batteries, and many of our 
companies, have two or three officers at least serving in them who are interested 
in hunting, and may not object to subscribe a small amount for a purely hunting 
fixture.” C. G. Mackenzie, Capt., Hon. Secretary. 
SINGAPORE.—_STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. 
Tue R.A. quartered in the island of Blakang Mati are about to have new quarters 
and mess premises built for them. Jor the last five years or more, both officers 
and men have been living in sheds thatched with atap palm leaves, whilst the 
Colony and the Home Government fought over the amount of the Military Con- 
tribution, but now this question has been practically settled, and the Colonial 
Government have commenced building the new barracks. 
The old mess and quarters had many discomforts which have been celebrated 
in yerse and song by the marooned subaltern condemned to live on the island 
