BAND OF HOPE EXCURSION—On Monday last the members of the Bands of Hope had their annual trip to the seaside, and a great number of friends also accompanied them. Messrs. Denton and Son's warehouse was closed, and the men joined the trip. The following Bands of Hope started from Higham Station:—
Higham Ferrers Wesleyan, Rushden Old Baptist, Succoth, and Independent Wesleyan, and Irthlingborough Wesleyan. These and the public that accompanied them made up a total of 1,113 who took a ticket at Higham Station for Cleethorpes. The whole were dispatched in excellent order by Mr. Woodward and his subordinates and in good time. On the excursionists returning at night it was discovered that a lad, named Fred Baxter, aged 11 years, had been left behind, to the grief of his parents, but he turned up at eight o'clock on Tuesday morning, having got into the wrong train at Cleethorpes, and gone to Sheffield. The officials there sent him on to Peterborough by the express, and from thence to Higham by the first train on Tuesday morning.