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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 March 1916, Page 3

Tiie inevitable deputationist is a. very hard individual to shake oft, vide any Cabinet Minister. Yesterday the Mayor of Palmerston telegraphed to Sir Joseph Ward asking if he would receive a deputation from the locai council when passing through Palmer-' ston on his way trom Auckland to Wellington. Sir Joseph sent the following reply "Very glad to receive deputation if they get up early enough. Express passes through Palmerston 3.11 a.m. Saturday." The Mayor sententiously replied: "We will be there." — .Mariawatu Times. An officer who has been in the thick of two hot engagements with the Hennas) analyses his feeling wit]) a calm air oi detachment. "'Of course, I don't, like it," he writes to his father m Wellington. "Nobody but a fool could like to see his men dropping, and the horrible sights. lam also fearfully afraid, b'ut I know, all the time 1 am afraid, that my will-power will see me through, and in consequence I don't worry much. You can't possibly imagine the wonderful joy one "feels after halving come through a show, knowing tna.t you have played the game. T would tar rather be in the firing-line than anywhere, because owing to your own men firing you can't hear the emeny's bullets whizzing, and also they don't come down with the steep angle or descent. To lie back doing nothing, with the bullets whizzing about, is damnable and nerve-wracking. It is ■ a wonderful experience seeing and being in a proper battle, done according to the book. A professional soldier _ might go a who!? lifetime without eecving the shows I have seen. I consider myself very lucky from a professional point of view. Of course, x am a fatalist. One can't help being anything else."