DEATH A BLESSED REST.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2367, 25 January 1915, Page 2

DEATH A BLESSED REST.

! 'A SCOTS GUARD'S LETTER. The following are extracts published by the "Daily Express" from a letter written by a private of the Scots Guards who has been through soino of the fiercest fighting in the Allied lino: "Wo have fought and fought this last week till I would have welcomed death. A bullot would put an end -to it. Death would have been such o blessed rest. Some men collapsed in the trenohes from pure fatigue and went to sleep, and not all that hell of shrapnel could wako them. Some of them died while they slept. It was on a Wednesday we reached tho position and entrenched in an awful hurry, because we were harassed by tho enemy's guns. Shells fell all round us while wo dug tho trenches, and you bet wo weren't , too scientific in digging them. Eighteen inches wide and four feet deep—that had to do. SIIOII3 blew in the sides in several places and'buried living and Bead impartially. Wo couldn't help it. We had to get into the trench and chance- what we stood on. My company consists now of four men and an officer. 1 suppose there are 800 of the battalion still able to move.

"We felt just like amimals must do when they're in a corner. We'd got to stick it —and we did. There was one man nearly didn't. . He wasn't one of our regiment. Ho'd got a handkerchief tied on a bit of stick. I orawled up to him and told him that if he hoisted it I'd blow his brains out first and my own afterwards. He knew I meant it, and I took the banner from him and tore it into ribbons, and then' broke the'stick across my kneo. The second night we were here one of the N.C.O's camo round to warn us oil that if any one was. seen crossing in front of the trenches we were to shoot without' stopping to ask questions, because the place was infested with spies. Well, he tried to take a short cut back to his position, later across the front of his own tronoh, and about twenty men fired on him at once. Of course, it was an accident, but he should have been moro careful. lam writing this by tho light of a little lamp the stretcher-bearers left. They had to skip because the Germans are pouring lyddite into us, and the fumes are suffocating. We have to hold this position to the last man, and if they aro all in the same state as I- am we will dc# it. Though I always was a goodtempered man." The death occurred in a private hospital at Wellington on Thursday evening of. Mrs. M'Donald, wife'of Mr. Roderick M'Donald, of Parkvale. The deceased lady was 65 years of age, and for a few months past had not been enjoying very good health. Somo eight days ago sne underwent an operation for an internal complaint.. Tho lato Mrs. M'Donald was a native of Scotland, and came to New Zealand thirty-seven years ago in the Rakaia. Tho interment took place at Ciarevillo on Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Elizabeth Dow, wife of. tho lato Mr. Thomas Dew, died at Carterton on Thursday at the ago of 74 years. The deceased lady-was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Stoodley, of England, and was born on the voyage but to New Zealand. They arrived in Wellington in 1841, and in 1858 Mr. and Mrs. Dew wore married at the Huit. There were five sons and five daughters of the marriage. For tho past fofty-three years the deceased lady has resided in Carterton. Besides the family above-mentioned, she leaves 43 grand-children and 23 great-grand-children. Taking advantage of Saturday's glorious sunshine, the employees of the Petono Woollen Mills journeyed to Day's Bay for their annua] picnic. There was a large attendance, and a committee, consisting of Messrs. Leadbetter (secretary), Fleet, Wright. Barber, Langridge, Price, Lockwood, and Blacker, worked tirelessly throughout tho day, their efforts producing olio of the most successful functions the mill, has yet held. Results of tho various events are as follow:—Mill handicap: LanKridae, 1; Price, 2; M'Dougall, 3. Girls' race (under 18): Miss A. Wilson, 1; Miss J. Leadbetter, 2. Married women's, race: Mrs. Campbell, 1; Mrs. Findlay, 2. Boys' race (under 18): Hunter, 1; Olliver, 2. Men's race (over 40): Crawford, 1; Blacker, 2. Men's race (under 40): Dempsey, 1; Findlay, 2. Young ladies' race': Miss M. M'Caskill, 1': Miss N. Leadbetter, 2. Novelty race: T. Hume, 1; Leadbetter, 2; J. ! Hume, 3.

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