"FROM CAPETOWN TO ZAMBESI."

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14378, 23 November 1908, Page 7

"FROM CAPETOWN TO ZAMBESI."

REV D. RUSSELL'S LECTURE. The llov. David Russell, ifeuth African evangelist and traveller-,' delivered to a good. audience in Hi* AlhaihbroTheatre on Friday owning Ills illustrated lecture descriptive of a tour from Capetown to the Jjambesi River. Air K. Aslin acted as chairman, and brwSy introduced the lecturer. Mr Hiiy.cll in his introductory remarks referred to liis recent minion in Dmicdin and the expressions of regret he had heard lhat liis visit, had occurred at a time of such genera! excitement. "From my point o( view," Ico raid, "it has been a bit of an education to hear and witness this (jreat struggle in tlie temperance, mud', and what 1 consider a splendid triumph." Ho felt that anything he had lost poisonally the cause of humanity had more than gained, and he assured thorn he would never forget the lessons lio had learned from the struggle,- and would undoubtedly have a good deal to say about it when ho returned to his own country, Passing on to the subject of his lecture Mr RiwH o!< how lh fi> he p f David Livingstone Iwl hrcd las boyish imagination and moulded his a-ftcr-carccr. The ftjst, Views Mown wore an excellent series illustratlug Capetown and its surrounding. Then Jftimbor/o[ views of various towns and fci p 6 "**? l the kctmT '» route thiough Cape Colony and Natal. Pawing on to the country over which the recent Boor war was fought, the lecturer had' many interesting explanatory comments to make on the scenes depicted. A photoff ap > °f IK. 0 ' M - Th omson, president of tho local Y.M.C.A., thrown on the screen, was received with long-sustained applamo. ■the second part of tho lecture took the audience across tho rugged Drakonsbci"mountains, through Kimuevlcv, with its wonderful diamond mines, past Johannesburg and oil to Bulawayo, the city that was laid out at the command of Mr lihoiK A number of excellent pictures of different varieties of African big game followed, and tlic-n came the •most.. Iwauliful and fasciiiatii.g views .in the collection—{he Kcries illustrating the marvellous -Victoritf *al|s. At this point the- great Zambesi ixiver, over a. milo wide, suddenly pluiw headlong into a narrow chasm some 450 ft deep, and the foam into which the water nt Sf ( 'i somc / l im " n 1 ,0 * height of 3000 ft above the falls. It was ca«v to oflievo tho lecturer's statement that som» of tho news woro taken at the risk of tllo photographers life, but certainly tho unifl.no collection was Well worth a good deal of risk to secure. Altogether over 150 views were shown in the course of he lecture and there is n 0 doubt that they form at exceptionally fine collection of •lantern slides. The lantern was expertly W d »W' J « M - Jo,lcs without tie lightest hitch During the interval a sacred solo. "Conic unto Me," was con tnbuted by Mr W.Bathgate.'At tI, SO : elusion of the lecture Mr N. Patefson and Ml It. Ucrcus in complimentai-v speeches proposed and secondetU very hearty vol* of thanks to Mr Russell for the splendid enlerUjntaonl he had provided P '