HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS RELIEF FUND.

Otago Witness, Issue 3215, 27 October 1915, Page 52

HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS RELIEF FUND.

The hon. treasurer (Mr J. D. Cameron) of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland Relief Fund acknowledges receipt of the following additional donations: —Previously acknowledged, £l3Ol 19s 3d; Sargood, Son, and Ewing warehouse employees £lO, E. H. £5, R. E. Matheson £5, Duncan M'Rae £3, Mrs C. R Richardson £2, Mrs Cunningham £1 ss, C. G. White £1 Is, H. Macandrcw £1 Is, Jas. Ross (Palmerston) £1 Is, Gregor M'Donald £1 Is, Donald M'Loan £1 ]s, Duncan M‘Pherson £1 Is, H. F. Noes £1 Is, M. G. (Tapanui) £1 Os sd, Colin M‘Kenzie £l, A. M‘Gregor £l, Hugh Walker £l, Allan M‘Coll £l, Mrs Cattanaeh £l, Alex. M'Grogor (Palmerston) £l, Hugh Walker (Palmerston) £l, “M.” 15s, Mrs Mills 10s, J. Sinclair 10s, John Fraser 10s, John M‘Phorson 10s, Arch. M'Lean 10s, Wm. Henderson 10s, John Robertson ss. A. and J. F. ss, A. iSligo ss, W. J. Croft ss, Geo. M'Lood ss, M. L. Spratt ss. Wm. Balloch 4s. V. A. Peterson 2s 6d, J. G. Forbes 2s 6d, Wm. Duff 2s 6d, T. Sinclair 2s 6d, Mrs Duff 2s fid, A. Duff 2s fid, Mrs J. Barring 2s fid, J. Reid 2s, collected by C. M'Konzic 14s fid;—total, £1350 14s 9d.

LETTER FROM REV. C. J. BUSH-KING.

Canon Curzon-Siggers permits us to make the following extracts from a. letter received from the Rev. C. J. Bush-King- on the 19th. : —"Alexandria, August 11. From my cable sent you, you will infer either that I have been ill or wounded. The fact of tho matter is, the nerve-wrecking effects of bullets and shrapnel, and long distances in tho trenches (night and day work), etc., attending the wounded at the firing line, and other things, have run mo down a bit, then diarrhoea, which had a tendency to dysentery, sot in, and I was carried off tho field and taken by hospital ship to Alexandria with a temperature of 104. I slept for throe days, awakened only at intervals for medicine and food. Then I was brought on to Cairo to Sir R. Wingate’s residence, now known as tTTc ‘ Sirdarish ’ Hospital, where T stayed for a few days. Thence, after a few days. I was ordered hack to Alexandria. I am living with other invalid officers in a house, specially built for the Kaiser as a residence during his visit to Egypt after tho war. A wealthy German subject built tho nlace, and it is most gloriously fitted up. And when Egypt had been captured by Turkey, and war had ended in tho Kaiser being supremo ruler of this planet, he was going on a triumphal world tour; and this place was built as his Alexandrian residence. Oh! tho irony; it is now used by tho British array ns a convalescent home for officers, I am feeling hotter, and as goon as

well I want to return to our troops at Anzac [Mr Bush-King is returning here at the end of this month]. There is now no New Zealand Anglican chaplain with tho forces at Gallipoli. As soon as I am able I will write to you at length. If you only knew how grateful the men are, and how needy they are (or some have been), you and Mr Fisher would be quite rewarded for your efforts in getting and sending money for the wounded, and the kind donors for their generosity. I enclose one of many letters, which show how grateful our men are for iforts provided by tho money you have sent. ’