sentences:  The Alexandra battery was also finished in 1885, and a force of permanent artillery was raised the following year.However, by 1893, an additional "auxiliary" force of 1,500 had also been raised and three years later the regiment consisted of three battalions, numbered consecutively, which were based in Hobart, Launceston and in the north west.The economic depression of the early 1890s resulted in a reduction in the size of the colony's permanent artillery.