A Letter from Trooper Enderby.

Manawatu Herald, 29 January 1900, Page 2

A Letter from Trooper Enderby.

» — Mr W. B. Rhodes is in receipt of a letter from Mr C. E. Enderby, dated Arundel Camp, a6th December, 1899, in which he states :— You will of course have seen that we have been under i fire on three occasions. Well, it is not ' such a terrible game after all, and as for being deadly shots the Boers are anything but that. They have simply ; ; poured bullets amongst us and only on | the last occasion did we have the bad luck to get a man hurt. This is worse than awful because we lost the fellow. .; His name is Bradford and comes from. Auckland. We were retiring under a raking fire of shot and shell from the enemy when Bradford was shot and >■ fell from his horse. His mates who were near him at the time said he was shot dead, so nobody went back for him until after returning to camp when a party was sent out in one of the Red Cross ambulance waggons to bury him; On arrival' at the place where Bradford fell our chaps met a fa^er who told them that the Boers%d come down and found that Bradford was only woanded in the leg and that they had dressed his wounds and taken him prisoner. This is a better state of affairs for Bradford but rather regrettable that we did not" get htm ourselves. Somebody lost aV.C. for certain. Had any body stopped to get him under the terrific fire a -*fi ■;€. was a certainty as the. General was present. I have pleasant recollections of Xmas at vonrjhouse in Foxton in the good old days. Yesterday brought them all back, we had footraces also a mule race which was very funny, it was run in heats, and spills inumerable. -S A perfect for heat and red deist storms is this place, situated about 14 miles north of Naauwpoort and about the same distance south of Colesburg. The latter is held by Boers and onr mission is to recapture it. We have been in idleness since last Monday the 18th and I don't think we will do anything until the sth of January. Hope we soon get to work again as it is horrible being in camp. Things are decidedly not in favour of the British, so far but our time will come when we are ready. A parson stood in his pulpit high, He'd lost his voice with cold well nigh ; , ■ And thoughltlees said. Let's all rejoice* < He'll have to ptop for he's lost his voioe, Bat hetcok Fome Woods' Great Peppermint Care, His voice grew strong, his remarks no , fewer. • *"!■