It went on snowing all Saturday till the evening & there was a little more in the night, but yesterday was a sunny day & a good deal of snow went & the grass is showing in places.

This Wigan (one of them) is staying at the Rectory. No special preacher for S.P.G. could come for yesterday. Ellis & miss Wickett thought they saw the lights of an aeroplane go by here yesterday evening after church, great excitement, Ellis came up to show it to me but I couldn’t see anything, once I thought I saw a light through the trees out Launceston way but that is all.

Terrible fighting going on in France around Verdun, the Germans are making desperate efforts to take it. Another liner gone, P&O boat, sunk by a mine near Dover, great loss of life.