BRITISH TROOPS AT PIETERMARITZBURG.
In a letter written by an Irish officer in Pietermaritzburg two days before the war began, that is on October 9, and received by one of the Oblate Missionary Fathers, London, the writer says : ' Father Murray was giving the Dublins a retreat when they were taken away ; he went with them. We had the Manchesters here on Sunday — about 250 Catholics in church. They left yesterday with a oonvoy for the front. Father O'Donnell is going up from here with Father Murray. There is a Catholio ohaplain coming out with Boiler. Father Delalle called on me to-day. Father Barrett preached at the soldiers' M&sa on Sunday. The Bishop is here ; all well here. What a rush there was sending up the Indian contingent, train after train. It seems to me the largest percentage of them are Irish.'
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 1, 4 January 1900, Page 3
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141BRITISH TROOPS AT PIETERMARITZBURG. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 1, 4 January 1900, Page 3
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