Historical records of the New Brunswick Regiment, Canadian Artillery

N. B. GARRISON ARTILLERY. 167The opening of the Dominion Exhibition on October istwas signaHzed by a salute from No. lo battery followed byH. M. S. Garnet^ then in harbor, running up the Americanflag and firing a royal salute. This courtesy was an acknowledgmentof the American salute to the British flag at Yorktown.The U. S. S. Alliance^ Commander Reed, immediatelyresponded with a salute, and thus, in the harbor of the Loyalistswas evidenced a reconciliation, effected by the communityof ancestry and the healing hand of time.Inspection was held on 9th October by Lieutenant-ColonelCotton, assistant inspector of artillery, who, in his report advertedto the intended retirement of Lieutenant-Colonel Foster,and congratulated him on the state in which he would hand overthe brigade. On 12th December, 1883, the formal announcementwas made that Lieutenant-Colonel Stephen Kent Foster waspermitted to retire retaining rank, and thus ended the honorableservice of a gentleman whose first artillery commissionbears the date of the 25th April, 1834, a continuous serviceof nearly half a century as an officer of his well loved corps,and much more than that as a member of the militia. Consequentupon his retirement the command of the brigade devolvedupon Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel M. H. Peters, who,being over the prescribed age could not be promoted to theregularcommand.In 1884 Staff-Sergeant Walling was sent from Quebecto instruct a team for the competition which was held at thelatter place in September and in which the brigade had thehonor of taking second place in the "B" or "go-as-youplease" shift. Before leaving St. John Sergeant Walling wasgiven a supper by the non-commissioned officers of the brigade.At the annual inspection Major-General Middleton was