SCENE AT BAPTISM.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIII, Issue 14349, 15 November 1910, Page 3

SCENE AT BAPTISM.

A HUSBAXB'S PROTEST AGAIXST WIFE'S i:.IJIEKSiO;%. There was ail exciting sceno at an open-a.r baptism at Dowuiiaiu, near £ly, when a crowd of some 51 iO persous who assembled to witness baptism by immersion in a village pond had a sensational experience. Jt had been announced that there was only one person—a male —to go through the rite, and, it was with, some surpr.se, therefore, "that the minister (the Kev. E. Morris, of London) was seen to he followed into the water by a local woman, who was apparently prepared for immersion. An sh<3 entered the water a shout of "I won't lot you do it, guv'nor," was heard, from a garden near by, and looking in that direction the crowd were astonished to tee the husband of the woman in the pond climbing over his fence, shouting meantime that ho would not allow the ceremony to proceed. By the time' lie reached the edge of the pond, however, his wife had been immersed bv the minister. So augry was the husband that ha went into the pond ami vigorously denounced the proceedings, and it looked as (hough when lie reached his wife ami the minister the affair might assume a more serious aspect: hut. acceding to ihe coaxings of the village policeman and brother, he eventually left the water. There was another soene between husband and wife when the latter came out of tile pond.— "Daily News." .