SEARCHING FOR "UNCLE JIM."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1080, 20 March 1911, Page 4

SEARCHING FOR "UNCLE JIM."

— » ADVENTUROUS LITTLE BOY. HE ESCAPES FROM LAMBTON STATION. The hope and pride of a Dannevirka household, a boy eight years of age, has been giving his relatives and the police eomo concern during the past two days. The youthful adventurer set out troin Dannevirke with the avowed intention of finding his "Uncle Jim" who resides in Wellington. He reached Wellington iu due course with Is. Bd. in his pockets, but the task of finding "Uncle Jim" in thickly populated Wellington was not such a simple undertaking as it had appeared to the juvenile mind nurtured in the comparative quiet, of Dannevirke. After enjoying the freedom of the city for a space the youthful uncle-hunter was taken in hand by a kindly policeman and was comfortably housed in the watch-house at tho Lambton Quay Police Station on Saturday night, pending arrangements being made his return to his parents. Jiowcyer, the boy determined to reWfte'''file search for "Uncle Jim." He waited his opportunity, and vlftn the watch-house-keeper was absent paying ,ene of his periodical calls to tho cells, promptly disappeared out of the front door of the police station. A much-surprised and. chagrined policeman returned from Ilia round of tho cells to find that the com> panion of his lonely watch had fled.