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Nelson Evening Mail, 27 May 1916, Page 6

The Star publishes the following extract from the letter of an Englishman, one of the Marquette crew, to his sister, who is employed at the Hawera Hospital : "Do you happen to know a !Nurse Sinclair, who 'was with the N.Z. 8.A.M.C.? She was one of the survivors, and happened to be floating about with the same wreckage as myeelf. You can\tell anyone that knows her that she is a plucky girl,, and was the means of keeping the hearts up in a good many, while the "hours went by, and there was no sign of a vessel near, and the possibility of being picked up -was very remote. She sang and shouted all sorts of lively things to one and the other. I have no doubt they (her people and all who know her) would be pleased to hear about her, and-she deserves a word of praise from everybody. I* last saw her with the regimental survivors in Salonika."

. So»e " .interesting communications have recently been received in Wellington' iby the friends and relatives of Mr Horace Hunt, formerly organist and choirmaster of the Terrace Congregational Church,,and who has been a prisoner at' Ruhleben, in Germany, since the outbreak'of war. The letters describe the life of the camp, where an Arte-.and Science Union has been formed- 1 ' amongst those interned. A piano has-been installed for them, and musical entertainments and lectures are of frequent occurrence. One letter concln'dea: ,"Wha£ heaps I could tell you ifrfonly had '.the space." .

O'er ail there hung the shadow of a fear, A' sense of misery his visage haunted,. Which said as plain as -whisper in the i Wia» 'flu* he's haunted.? . L But-I;will not: r.epine;.a little <hit, _ -•"Wbods* -PeppennmCcuro is Wanted. \ He"took some—now 'ie** well and fit, -