For the purposes of entertainment these detachments now illustrate in reality the idea of The Gondoliers: though having separate commands, Captain Dowdall and Lieut. Miller reign as joint hosts, and the success with which they did this for the first time on Monday night at the Club Concordia will make the interregnum until their next appearance in the same capacities a marked one. As is well known, what was formerly the Engineer corps has undergone a change, in that the Nordenfelt guns have been detached snd placed as a separate branch under Lieut. Miller. But the right to the traditions of good fellowship and hospitality which attached to the original force is not relinquished by its off-shoot, and accordingly they combined in an entertainment which, by kind permission, came off on Monday night in the Club Concordia, is the pardonable pride of the corps that in such matters they rely upon. their unaided exertions to please their guests, and though the inevitable changes which our community is subject to may at times tax their resources somewhat keenly, new
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