prior to adjournment, that before the year was out he would submit some strong and controlling regulations to make their club both more exciting and more competitive. A follow-up meeting, a week later at FitzGerald's, voted Charlottetown shipowner, George Peake, into the Club and he, like Fred Hyndman and Francis Haszard, would pass his enthusiasm for the sport on to future generations. Fred Peters recommended that the Club look into the possibility of shooting at Inkerman House, in the northwest end of the city. Inkerman House was the home of Confederation Father, John Hamilton Gray, and the spacious grounds and isolated location, yet close to the city, would make it ideal for clay target shooting. Gray had casually mentioned it to his neighbour, Peters, and the meeting agreed to look into it.

Two more shooting competitions were held before 1886 passed. On December 18th at Huntington, the Warburton's home on the lower Malpeque Road, they used up the balance of their clay targets, with Ernest Blanchard shooting his best ever, breaking nine of the ten targets thrown. On Monday, December 27th (Boxing Day) they were back at Arthur Peters on Admiral Street and also back to "bats," nine of them as a matter of fact, and rather than shoot one target alternately, this time they shot three at a standing, with the following results:

HOBKIRK FITZGERALD RICHARDS A. PETERS DAVIES BLANCHARD HYNDMAN HAVILAND HASZARD

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Following the shooting they retired to Arthur Peters' home, to enjoy his Christmas hospitality and

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