JAPANESE SALVATIOHISTS

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1506, 14 July 1905, Page 2

JAPANESE SALVATIOHISTS

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By the German steamer PrSns Sigismund, which arrived recently, at Sydney from Kobe, a band ; of five Japanese officers of the Salvation Army arrived there, with .pass-.-’ ports. There names arc: General Takahasbi, Captains Sodcni and.'. IVashimi (the last two named being ladies), and Lieutenants Shikope and Kashida. • They took up- quarters at the Salvation Army's People’s Palace, in Pitt street. General-, Takabashi, who sneaks English fairly* well, explained to a Sydney Morning Herald reporter, that thCy - intending spending six months touring j the Commonwealth and New Zealand. ; their pbject being to preach ... sal- • ration through Christ, and • to ««-.:• quire fully into the nature of the Salvation Army work in the colonics. lie mentioned that the army 1 had been established in Japan' for 1 aiiuc years, -and now. comprised about | one thousand soldiers, the com-mander-in-chief being Colonel Buard, i The work carried on by the army 3 there was, lie said, much im the j lines as lie understood the work was j Icing carried on in the colonies.-; They had a barracks, a rescue Home, j 'Prison gate brigade, and a sailors*-”) home, while visiting committees i •went about, among the poor people, ; Igiving-them relief and medicine where nee’doa He said the Mika'do was in j sympathy, with all Christian work. ; A) few months ago He gave a sub- j* s'lantial donation to the .Y.M.C.A"., 'which w.as- worked in connection! wi"'

She army’s social operations thHis Majesty had also given a <? tion to the Christian Orphanage Was very, desirous that the Sas. tion ’Army work should, progress \ ftho Empire. The officers arc J.o pa’_ a visit to New Zealand, and it il intended to call at Gisborne.

Thn Opotiki Herald roports that Mr A Hickford met with a nasty accident j certain repairs beiog urgently neoossaiv to tho main road just below Mr Lamlort’s (the boacb' nd which tho surfenamanhad no authr 1 to do, ho rodo into Opotici to consult ..oe'Coanty Clork or Mr Vansjmo. After his consultation ho started for h|mo, and while in tho act of cantering his torso a littlo boyond the public school, itbo aoimal fell, aud in its fall rolled oveifllr Hickford. He was picked up by Mr lirr, who having hoard the jgroans, ran tohis ; assistance. Although very muoh bruisd ; and his back hurt there woro no bejes . broken. • J -;4f

The Auckland Observer’s hrryoas man thus raises a laugh against the ; ypositionists who have been cryinrjfc about the neglected north :—“ in the audience that assembled ,*o htjp Jimmy Carroll’s pre sessional ad* r ®ss ip ; other day, made the Native Minis*-.# positively blush .by asking heroic manner : ‘ Will Mr , C* rr °H enlighten us as to how tb' hoveppmet: disposed of the old railway carriages an , engines before the adver» i’he GisbornJ j Karaka railway ? ’ Thr question, after,* is not po very bj^ ; come of. them ? T-iby sent y| Auckland, for wo H vo x ’jl^ys i Iliad to' 3 back on cattle I-a -it possible iM,S the Gisborne people 'a*® fiom plaining what in oth3f parts °* c -.io colony i&GOpta ejdoved tho»o»gWy