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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3157, 19 March 1889, Page 3

A London correspondent-writes, Mr Herbert Booth, the youngest son of "General" Bootn, has just returned '-. from your colony, and gavo an account of his work at a mass meeting iu Clapton last wook. A few days before, at a great gathering of the Salvation Army in St. James's Hall, General Booth reviewing the work of the Army abroad and in the oolonics, spoke of New Zealand He said they had sent out to New Zealand two lads who landed with only one sovereign in their pockets, and they had no frionds, but they began to preach, and the result was that in twelvo months thoro wore seventeen officers and an income ac the rate of £IO,OOO per annum,

" That mutt be a fine stream for trout," said a gentleman to a rustic ■whom be had observed soma hours previously engaged in the samo occupation of angling, " Woel, it maun be a 1 that," was tho reply ; " for I been standing here for threo 'oors, an doil a ano o' them will stir ooto't.''

A A curious photographic apparatus, in ■ Tv-hioh a camera ia raised by n rocket and lowered by a parachute, is being developed by a French inventor, M. Amedee JJeniss'e, In its experimental form, the cylindrical camora "has twelve lenses round its circumference' with a sensitive j plato in its centre, and it is provided I with a shutter, which opens and instantly ;■ cloaca as the apparatus commences to fall. The descent is eased by the opening of the attached parachute; which is drawn back to.tho operator by n cord attached before the firing of the rocknt. For securing bird's-eye views the photorocket offers oeveral important advantages over balloon photography, such as comparative cheapness in operating and freedom from risk in caae of use for millltary reconnoitring.'