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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7794, 5 December 1896, Page 4

[ "The General has decided thnt you «<> • forth and conquer Melanesia and this whole ) of the islands in the Knstern Archipelago. A vast world fur missionary effort is to be > handed over to you, a territory comprising i a population of 40 million human souls. 1 The Salvation Army of Australasia is to be asked to i^ive its Mesh — (great laughter) — and blood, also, to the poor black heathen. L We want volunteers to go ami j»i"ench the . Gospel to tilt) dusWy lost ones. ■Sow, sing with mo, ' Anywhevo for Jesus.' ' Halle- , lujah.') Some of you had better be carot fut how you sine; this, for it may land you in Borneo, with no better prospect than : being served up for breakfast. (Laughter.) j Those of you who have a taste for botany , or zoology will have opportunity to indulge r your tates in this new kingdom of the Oeneral's. You can, if you like, look on lions and tigers, and on an occasional rhi--5 noceros ; and if you have a taste for , buffaloes, Java contains two and a half [ milliions of them. There aro thousands j of ravenous reptiles you can try your . hands on, even snakes 20 feet long. (' Praise God for the snakes.') Alligators, [ too, will cross your path at timos. And, r oh, the beautiful insect life, and the . beetles ! Who')] sing, * Anywhere for f Jesus ' now ? ('Hallelujah.') There aro 40 volcanoes in Java. What fine S.ilva- . tion Army torches they will make ! Think . of the prospect of civilisint; 40 millions of . these children of God ! I'm sure if the General had sent me to China, Id have . crune, and I'd look uncommonly handsome . with a pigtail."— Commandant Booth, in : Melbourne. A new out lot has been found for New ■ Zealand mutton. It has 'come into con- - sumption in quite a novel quarter, iiiul in . rather unexpected circumstances (writes i iba London correspondent of the Ucago ' Daily Times). The annual cat show was 3 held at tht> Crystal Palace during tho current week, and the owners ot tho 720 > splendid pussies that wero exhibited 011 i this occasion aro exceedingly particular : us to tho proper, feed of their pcty, whose ■ value is estimated by their owners U> 8 rtiu!!u in some ca^es up to LSOO, LIOOO, or - evou LI2OO pel' cat. After much cogital tiou it was decided to administer to tlieso pampered animals New Zealand mutton 1 carefully minced. It appeared to be I highly relished by the consumers, and 0110 1 can only regret that they aro not in a position to signify moru explicitly their ■ high appreciation of tho oxceliont (juali- > ties of tho Now Zealand product. You can buy coflins in Sydney on easy ; terms— 2s Gd a week. ) Several warnings have been given to Auckland tradesmen by tho banks as to issuing defaced notes. They intend stop--1 ping the practice of advertising on them : by prosecuting in every instance where i known. ■ A whale recently captured in Arctic * waters was found to have imbedded in its aide a luirpoon that belonged to a whaling vessel that had been out of service nearly ! half a century. r Misses Moore, Fraser, and bmith, three Duuedin young ladies, left last week for tho Central China Mission, under the , charge of Mrs Anderson, of Glasgow. 1 One of the oldest and beat known members i of the legal profession in Ohriotchurch, Dr U. J. Foster, is dead. Dr li'oater's couuec- , tion with Canterbury dated irom 1861, iv which year lie arrived ut Lyttelton 111 the , saip Mystery. 1 The directors oi the Bank of New Zealand contemplate the erection of a hamUome building of three or four stories on the site of the aresenc Bank premises, at the corner ! of Lambton and Customhouse Quays. \ Tho explanation given to the Nelson Charitable Aid Board of the reason why a recipient of aid could not wont was thai he " fed too hard."