Cayley } Granted discharge, England Cubitt } Graham, J.A.—Granted leave, India Of the above-named, Elliott, Burn-Murdoch, and C.A. Walton were invalided on account of wounds. J.S. Saunders cracked a bone in his arm when he took the fall at Spytfontein which cost him his liberty, and he has been sent home by the medical authorities as being incapacitated for further service. C.E. Stuart is also unfit for active service, as the wound in his foot sustained at the taking of Pretoria has left permanent effects. He moves about gingerly, and is buoyed up with the hope of a pension for life. Stuart wears spectacles, and he’ll need ’em badly when it comes to drawing his quarterly allowance. Poor Maclaine, who died here of pneumonia on August 29, makes the eighth death in the regiment. Though most of us are enjoying splendid health and spirits, it is sad to reflect that to so many our campaign in South Africa has brought but sickness and broken constitutions. Some record of those old comrades whose services have won well-merited recognition, and whose subsequent movements I have endeavoured to trace for the delectation of cousins, aunts, creditors, and insurance company secretaries, would not come amiss. The home authorities and Lord Roberts himself have treated the regiment most generously in the matter of commissions in the Regular Army, as the following list will show. Men named have been gazetted, as far as I can remember, to the regiments stated below: W. Douglas Jones, A.S. Corps │J.A. Fraser, West India │ Regiment Montagu Bates, East Surrey │Percy Smith, Oxfordshire L.I. Regiment │ J.S. Biscoe, West India │G.P.O. Springfield, 3rd Regiment │ Dragoon Guards P.J. Partridge, │P. Strahan, South Northamptonshire Regiment │ Staffordshire Regiment B.C.A. Steuart, Black Watch │F.W. Wright, A.S. Corps Arathoon, 3rd Dragoon Guards │H.S.N. Wright, A.S. Corps R.G. Collins, West India │T.B. Nicholson, West India Regiment │ Regiment Fletcher, A.S. Corps │Norton, West India Regiment C.R. Macdonald, Argyll and │Hugh Blair, Somersetshire L.I. Sutherland Highlanders │ Of the above, Macdonald’s, I think, has not yet been confirmed, but all the others have gone, some to their regiments in the country, and others to report at the War Office. Arathoon, who has been one of the best and cheeriest of the regiment, is, I am sorry to say, in the Irish Hospital here recovering from a bad go of rheumatic fever, which will prevent him from joining his new regiment for a long time. Meanwhile it appears that Colonel Lumsden had been trying to secure for Calcutta one of the guns so gallantly captured by his men. He received the following letter: