A SALVATIONIST TROOPER.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 26 January 1901, Page 4

A SALVATIONIST TROOPER.

The Gisborne Times publishes a letter written by Trooper Yardley to his friends in Gisborne, from which we make the following extract: —"By the time you get this note you will hive got over this old year and started another. I hope you will have a real jolly Christmas. I intend to if I am spared so long, even if it is on top of a kopje. I am just as happy as one can well be out here. I think one part of God's earth is as good as another if you make it so. We have had it a bit rough sometimes, but still we make a lot of fun out of it. It is quite a gay life. Sometimes I like it a lot better than the timber yard anyhow. The only thing is that if you want to leave the camp you have got to ask leave, but I have had my full share of leave. I get on all right because they know I will come home sober. This is just the place for a Salvationist if you keep on the ines and live out your life. lam with a toff lot of chaps. We get on grand together. I often think if they were only converts what a power for good they would be. Tell all my Army comrades that I am getting on splendidly and keeping bright. They all know lam a Salvationist, and by God's help I intend to do nothing that would lower the colors, but to do my best to raise them still higher. There are plenty of Army chaps with us now."

Trooper Yardley is evidently made of the right stuff to keep up the credit of ihe colony.