A LOST LEG

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2315, 24 November 1914, Page 5

A LOST LEG

The spirit of the man. who ask'g "What matters my lost'leg?" is chtus aoterisiio of 'mfeny of the letters whicH are being received from British soldiers at the front; No sacrifice-i6. too' : great, no hardship too severe, for the Brave men who are fighting England's' battles. A private in the Ist Hants Regiment r ;. now in the Hertford British 'Hospital} in the suburbs of Paris, writing to an? aunt in Portsmouth, says:— "I am getting on famously, though F have had the misfortune to lose my. right leg. What matters? I still have my left, and my life. Moreover,-1 shall,, be able to swank with my medal afterall. Yos, I have lost a leg, but it was. for my King and country. It was a; shell that did it. It pitched between six of us in a trench; it killed one and; wounded four, and never touched the. sixth. Are wo downhearted?. No, fop wo are winning."

A cable -message Teceived at the tional Headquarters of the Salvation;/ Army yesterday announced the", safe ar- . rival afc Vancouver of Commissioner!)--and Mrs. Richards. Another cablo mos-. 1 " sage Teceived aainounced; tho arrival /, at Adelaido of Commissioner ' ■ late of Japan, who is Commissioner Richards's successor in Jfew Zealand. An excellent lot of sheep and cattlof will be sold at Messrs. W. and G. Turnhull and Co.'s Waipoua clearing sale txn morrow morning. Messrs. Lundon, Stewart, and Co., Hasti ings, liavo received instructions to auction, tln-ee touring motor-cars at the Tourist. Motor Company's Garage on Saturday* November 28. ' Tho Associated Auctioneers hold theirj regular sale at the Solway Yards on Wed-t nesday next. Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercan* tile Agency Co., Ltd., hold their usual weekly stock sale at Upper Hutt on Thursday n&xt. ■ Tlio usual weekly stock. sale will bs hold at Levin by Messrs. Dalgety and 1 Co., Ltd., on Friday morning next. A freshold farm of 2100 acres is an. nounccd for sale by Messrs. Williams and Kettle, Ltd., Napier. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., hold tlioir usual weekly stock sale at Levin- on Friday next. On Saturday next at tlioir Eangitikci Street yards tho same firm will submit to auction thirty; . draught horses with harness, etc. Messrs. E. Johnston and Co. will auc Hon 430 tons of imported coal in tho ■ yard next to Messrs. Hatrick and Co.'s building, Wakefield Street, to-morrow, .juorningt