This item could be of value to someone Elaine Hastings The Wine and Fruit Country of New Zealand Hawke's Bay Herald Sept 14 1888 John Mc DONNELL Page 4 Born in Ireland A man has just passed away who was a living link between the present age and that in which the earlier struggles of the Americans for their independence took place. In fact, the battle of BUNKER'S HILL was fought within the twelve months preceding the birth of John Mc DONNELL, who death is now announced in Ireland He was, therefore a hundred and twelve years old when nature at last succumbed to the destroyer it had so long resisted. We regard with wonder the few men remaining alive who bore arms on the memorable field of WATERLOO in 1815, but John Mc DONNELL fought in the Irish rebellion of 1798, and must have been twenty two years old at the time. He could probably distinctly recollect the news coming of the execution of LOUIS XVL, and nine months later, the decapitation of Marie Antoinette. He had, indeed, heard of many revolutions and attempted revolutions in the course of his life. His memory seems to have been pretty retentive to the last, and within the past six months he is said to have related stories of the rebellion in which he fruitlessly took part.