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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 12, 11 July 1884, Page 14

A correspondent writing to the St. James's Gazette about the recent fatal fire in old Bailey, London, tays : •' I recommend that on retiring to rest you should place a pocket handkerchief under your pillow. Should you be aroused by an alarm of fire, steep the handkerchief in water and tie it round your head covering the mouth and nostrils. This will enable the wearer to witb-stand the suffocating influence of smoke and give him or her a valuable chance of escaoe For years I was an amateur fireman, and so proved the efficacy of this plan." J A notable conversion recently took place in this city. Colonel R. H. Savage, of the United States army, and bis wife, were baptized on Sunday last by Archbishop Riordan, in the private chapel of St Mary's Cathedral. The Colonel is a higbly-educated man and a vigorous thinker. He made a gallant soldier, but resigned early from the army on account of failing health. He is still a young man in the full maturity of his powers, and his conversion, as well as that of his accomplished wife, has made quite a stir in church circles The Colonel's sponsor was the Rev. Father Nugent, and Mrs. General Bingham, wife of General Bingham, U.S.A., now at the Presidio was sponsor for Mrs. Savage. ~~San Franciscan,,