GENERAL BADEN-POWELL AND AUCKLAND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6825, 16 October 1900, Page 2

GENERAL BADEN-POWELL AND AUCKLAND.

LETTER TO THE SUBSCRIBERS TO THE BADEN-POWELL TESTIMONIAL. '

(Auckland Herald.)

On Friday last Mr J. W. Shackelford, hon. secretary to tho Baden-Powell testimonial fund, received tho following letter from the gallant General: —

" Viljoen's Drift, Transvaal, " '2nd September, 1900.

" Dear Sir, —I have only now received your vory kind letter of Juno 25. I am most deeply grateful and highly flattered at the generous manner in which the peoplo of Auckland propose to show their appreciation of the manner in which we, in Mafeking, tried to do our duty. " I feel most unworthy myself of being singled out to be the recipient of so handsome a piesent, when I was only one of a band of men with whom I am very proud to have been associated.

" Thoroforc, in accepting these marks of your approval, I do so as the figurehead of the garrison, and, in their behalf, I desire to tender to you and to the generous contributors in Auckland, our heartiest gratitude for your goodwill, and your yery handsome way of showing it. " I cannot tell you with what interest and pleasure I look forward to receiving tho escritoire and casket, not only on account of their intrinsic beauty, but also on account,of the local interest attaching to thorn, and of the generous feeling which has promp'od their despatch.

" I shall always regard them as a tie between Mafcking, our distant cousins across the sea, and myself.

" I only hope my good fortune may some day bring me to your country, and enable me to express in person the gratitudo I cannot adequately put on paper. " Yours, very truly, " It. S. tj. BAwiiV-l'OWEliti."