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 
     
    
   
   
    
     COOCFRHOFHFE 
     
     COOrFCCHOFH 
     
     COOFORFORF 
     
     CHRHFOFROCOFSO 
     
     HORKRPRPHOHRFE 
     
     SCOFPOCOFOFREHFE 
     
     CRPOCORKFEHFE 
     
     CHOC OOFRFHFE 
     
     COrFFOGOCC OF 
     
     FWuhABR RU NO 
     
    
   
   
    
     Following the shooting they retired to Arthur 
     
     Peters' home, to enjoy his Christmas hospitality and 
     
    
   
   
    
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