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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12467, 17 February 1909, Page 4

: ■ i . . ■ ! Sir Wililam Treloar, who worked actively at Christmas on behalf of poor crippled children, has probably done as muoh for these poor inites as any living man. When he was Lord Mayor of London, ho stated that one of the most terrible sights he ever saw was the sight of a big policeman bringing before him little boys and girlsoharged with the • " crime 'j of wandering. That meant ! that the policpman had found them, ' perhaps at tbree or four o'clock on a winter's morning,- walking about ; wet through, ragged, and hungry. **)' One evening," said Sir Wili ana in the course of a public speech, "my wife and I sat talking over thing's and she saia, 'Well, if ever -you are Lord Mayor, try and do something that will bs of permanent good to poor' children.'" Tfcat- he has taiken her advice, thousands of 'little ones can gratefully testify, and although he is no-w. no longer Lord Mayor, he still keeps : up the good workTwitn unabated ardour. " The Spanish War Office authorities have a number of agents in Ireland. at present buying up horses for cavalry, and hundreds of fine animals have arrived in London, bound for Madrid.