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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 58, 2 December 1907, Page 5

The rector of Wareham, in appealing for a drum for his school band, says: "Is Wareham so poor that it has to tease members of Parliament and thoso who hope to become M.lVs for subscriptions -to support footbiiil clubs and bands? The' barefaced' way m which money is demanded from those gentlemon is much like blackmailing, and the reasons which induce thorn to give are uncomfortably like bribory and corruption. It is reported . that Colonel Eobert M. Thompson, a United States financier, retired naval officer and lawyer, has made arrangements for a tour round the world oil a record scale for a private individual (says "Fairplay"), and lias chartered the Hritisii steamer Mineola, of 4766 tons gross, built by Sir J. Laing and Sons, Sunderland, in 1900, and owned by Messrs. T. Hogan and Sons (Now York), to be specially fitted up for the trip. It is stated that the cruise Will last 18 months, slid will cost about £100,000. Alterations and decorations are to be carried out in the vessel, on which £25,000 is to bo exponded. Tho vessel will probably start oil her cruise on December 1, aiid will call at Gibraltar,' then proceed through tho Suez Canal to the Far East, and a call will bo made at ?fow Caledonia, whero Colonel Thompson baa nickel ore dopositai