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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 648, 18 August 1891, Page 3

About 400 signatures had been received up till yesterday to tbe petition in regard to native lands, A concert takes place in the Holy Trinity Sunday School room this evening, At the Mutual Improvement Society last night, Mr J. T. Evans read and explained Rev. Joseph Cook’s lecture on "Is Conscience Infallible ?’’ and a good discuaeion followed. Mr Smaill's new arrangement for safety in case of horses bolting was tried in Gladstone road on Saturday, and attracted a large crowd of onlookers. The horse was not of the bolting class, and seemed to rise superior to the excitement of the occasion, but nevertheless a fair trial was made and a very good impression of the utility of the apparatus was created, It is estimated that General Booth’s first Farm Colony on the banks of the Thames, will, when fully occupied, sustain between 4000 and 5000 people.—There are 500 Salvation Army Officers in India, Native and European. Labour Bureaux have been started in Bombay and Madras, where scores of I' Out-of works ” have found employment.—Colonel McKie, the Salvation Army Evangelist now touring the Colony, spent five months in Australia, daring which time 8,200 penitents came forward for Salvation in bis meetings.