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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1398, 8 March 1905, Page 3

According to the latest information General Booth and party left London on March 2nd by the P. and O. mail steamer Victoria, and will arrive in Adelaide on April 10th. This will be a very significant event, inasmuch as the date of arrival will he the General’s 78th birthday. The very fact of his embarking upon a tour of this magnitude at his great age is a phenomenal exploit, which in itself is very remarkable. The first public engagements will be conducted in New Zealand, from I April 28th to May 3rd, at Wellington.

An amusing unrehearsed moident oc ourred at the baby show on Thursday, says the OamaruMn.il. Jn his anxiety to secure competitors for the event an energetic committeeman had evidently grabbed the first baby that came to his hand, without making any arrangement for its safe return to the doting parent. The consequence was that the first priao infant found itself a temporary orphan at the conclusion of the contest. Enquiries for • some time failed to elicit the whereabouts bf.'the.child.s natural guardian ; and the spectacle was presented of a well-known Oamaru tradesman wandering round Victoria Perk with a baby in his arms, enquir-ing-with a woe-begone face, and in an anxidita and much-perplexed voice, “ Does anvone bvS:n this child? ” Matters at one time looked, ratber serious, but before an official hue-and-cry could be raked,, the missing parent was found, and mutual explanations followed which set the minds of all at rest.--Masterton is spoken of by one of its papers.B3 follows i-pWe referred the other day to the bad name this town has for juvenile intemperance and also for gambling. Since we' ndtade this referenoe we have" been, told of ahooal criminal industry, which opens up another phase of horror. In a town under 11 g\ood rule and government ’’ would such practices prevail ? The answer to this must pc “ No 1 ” ; There isn’tfa mart who works a Government leasehold to ; clay—;be ho a Socialist, Land Rationalist, .\pr any other “ ist”— who wouldn’t jump\at the chance of bo* coming a freeholders and thoro isn’t a member of the who i 3 hot a freeholder of some sort Jbr other. But while the Freeh'old is good jfor th® autocrat and bis'-jtstpff, it -is barf for tho democratic country.they 11 lead.’}— Gceymouth Stand-