THIRTY YEARS' EXILE ENDS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18231, 15 November 1924, Page 4

THIRTY YEARS' EXILE ENDS.

-, ;;■■--.-■ PAEIS, October 9. The war-like monarch of ,28 years ago, ex-King Prempeh of Ashanfi (to the north of the British Gold Coast Colony in Africa), has been allowed to return to Ashanti from his place of exile in the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean.

A convert to the Anglican Church, Prempeh speaks excellent English.and has the most courteous manners. Nobody now talking with him would dream that he was once the terror of Ashanti-land. After the overthrow of King Prempeh in the Ashanti revolution of 1896 (when he was exiled to the several of his chiefs hid the famous Golden Stool, the symbol of sovereignty corresponding to the throne. British attempts to find it led to the rebellion of 1900 and the siege of Coomassie. ,The Stool was eventually found in 1921 by labourers doing excavation work for a new road 70 miles north of Coomassie.

Who got Abel's sheep? the poser recently put to a Sunday school teacher/as related by the Rev. G; S. Cook at Onehxinga, illustrating .the realistic manner in which Bible history was presented to the rising generation. The teacher could not answer, and the reverend gentleman said he would not attempt to answer such a thoughtful Question either. V At the other extreme, as illustrating failure to grasp the subject, Mr Cook related the case of a teacher quoting the injunction of the patriarch Jacob to his sons: "See that ye fall not out by the way.". Asking the children the meaning of. his advice, one young hopeful replied:: "Perhaps the cart had no backboard."