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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 1, 24 December 1912, Page 6

atres are thought to be responsible for the exploits of three Glasgow boys of respectable middle-class families, for whom the police were searching. One of the boys is said to have helped himself to £6O belonging to his parents, and to have set off on an expedition with two companions. They first went to the Cattle Market and bought three ponies, saddles and bridles, slouch hats and bayonets. Thus equipped they mounted and set oft for] the open country. They reached tho village of Balfron, about IS miles from Glasgow, the same evening. There., in the Hob Roy country, and within sight of the famous Trosaachs, they camped for the night, tethering their ponies in the approved fashion of bushrangers. On the following day they rode to Sheltleston, an eastern suburb of. Glasgow, and, entering a farmyard, ashed for shelter, representing that they were Boy Scouts. They were given a night’s lodging, with stabling for tfie ponies, and next morning . (Friday > set out again, saying that they Were going to Hamilton, a garrison town about' 10 miles distant-. Since then, although the police were scouring the country for the adventurers, nothing more had been heard of them. Two of the boys are pupils of Glasgow High School. The London City Mission, of which the secretary, Mr Martin Anstey, is in New Zealand on a visit, is a Huge organisation, as may be gathered from the following facts: LA. band of 400 missionaries is engaged in ministering to the needs of the suffering, and the poor in the slums. Last year 5057 children were sent to Sunday schools, 4234 adults were induced to attend public worship, 1417 converts became attached as communicants to churches of all denominations, and 1126 drunkards were reclaimed by the efforts of the missionaries. Situations were found for 1077 men out of work; 0096 patients were attended at four medical missions; 128,885. free meals were given to destitute children and 60,34(Tt0 adults. The sum of £15,261 was' deposited during the year in clubs and penny banks connected with the mission. There are 204 mission halls with an average attendance of 75 per week, 03 Sunday schools with 1261 teachers and 20,553 scholars, and 102 -Bands of Hope with 11,071 members. The work is entirely unsectarian, one half of the ■committee being members of the Church of England and tho other half Nonconformists. The work is carried out in close association with the Evangelical dhurches of every denomination. The chairman is Mr F. A. Be van, and tne committee includes a number of well-known city merchants and distinguished philanthropists.

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