192 AUSTRALIA AND HOMEWARD. 



Jones, Esq., formerly Mayor of Gawlor (the second in 

 size among the cities of South Australia), inviting us 

 out to visit him. 



Mr. Jones has a sister in Montreal and a daughter 

 in Winnipeg, so, of course, he feels strongly attached 

 to Canada. Having travelled over most of the Domin- 

 ion, he is thoroughly conversant with all things 

 Canadian, so it was like meeting one " to the manor 

 born " to meet him, and we had, during the short time 

 at our command, a very pleasant time of it. There 

 was a Christmas Sabbath-school gathering in the 

 Town Hall. I had the honor of giving an address to 

 parents and children, nearly two thousand in all. 



We left Adelaide on the afternoon of December 

 31st, by the steamship Massilia, of the Peninsular 

 and Oriental Line, and were quite out of sight of land 

 before the end of the old year. The day which has 

 always been to me a day of gladness, was made a day 

 of sorrow through the painful death of one of our 

 passengers. A young man, twenty-six years of age, 

 came on at Melbourne, suffering with delirium 

 tremens. He became so unmanageable on Saturday 

 night that the stewards had to bind him down, hands 

 and feet. O, what a comment on the crying out of 

 our opponents for liberty ! 



In Melbourne a party was formed to oppose us, 



