THE PRINCE OF WALES IN THE SLUMS.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 7270, 19 October 1891, Page 4

THE PRINCE OF WALES IN THE SLUMS.

According to the Cape Argun, daring h ; i voyage in the Scot General Booth expressed a desire to enter into friendly intercourse with his fellow pauengen, and on the 4th of Auqast, after a preliminary dhcoarpe on the quarter-deck, the General delivered a ■tirring ■peecb in tbe firit-cUns saloon to folly two hundred passengers. The chair was taken by Lord Carringtoo, who, in Introducing General Booth to his hearer?, gave a pathetic picture of (be long-iustained sufferings of tbe poor la oar great citiep, and complimented h'tn on the remedial measure proposed. He gave an interesting account of a tieit he and the Prince of Wales paid to a slum neighborhood it St. Pancras. "in the disguise of sanitary officer**." The landlord of the premises guided them into a room, fireless and furnitarelen, where a mother and her children lived, the children being naked. The guide asked the mother where the third was. •' I don't know. I hare not aeen it since I was in court a fortnight ago," replied the mother, evidently quite unconcerned as to the fate of her offspring. " What on earth are we to do," aiked the landlord, «• with people of that eort V General Booth, said Lord drrington, had set bimielf to answer that question.

An old sea captain was one day retting a friend to some crtuty old port wine. His friend, when he had got rather maob, fell oft the chair. The old captain had a hearty lau^h, and said, 'Well, shiver my timbers, bat that's what I call sinking in eight of port.' Little Elsie — • Oh, take me up, mamma. Its to maddy.' Mamma — ' Walk aorost, that'a a good girl mamma has all ahe can do to carry poor Fido."