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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 379, 2 April 1902, Page 3

in the current number of the Leisure Hour, Mr Henniker Heaton, in the course of a serial article on the House of Commons, tells a good story showing tho late Charles Stuart Parnell’s power of detachment. Says Mr Heaton: “He came into the House one afternoon, when the fiercest excitement prevailed regarding the publication by the Times of the forged letters. Ho in a short speech denied the authorship of the letters, and then walked into the lobby and engaged mo in earnest conversation. Everybody thought ho was telling me of the awful political event then stirring men’s minds. This is what he said to me: ‘I have just read in the afternoon paper that a mountain of gold has been discovered in Western Australia, and that some tons of the specimens have been sent home to you.’ I replied that it Was true, and that I had in my lockor in the House some of the crushed specimens. We proceeded to get them, and I gave him about a wine-glassful of the ‘ crushing.’ He took it away with him, and to the bewilderment of his party no one saw him for a week, and very few indeed knew his address. On that day week, almost at the same hour, he again I appeared in the lobby. Walking up to me, he said, smilingly, ‘ I have analysed I the specimens, and they go 82 ounces of gold to the ton.’ I said he was wrong. He then took from his pocket a scrap of paper and read, ‘27 ounces of gold and I five ounces of silver.’ I replied that this was indeed remarkable, for it exactly coincided with tho analysis of Messrs Johnson,- Matthey and Co., the famous metallurgists. Parnell then showed me the small pin’s point of gold ho had I obtained. I expressed surprise at his I work. He said : * The fact is, I take an interest in the matter. I have a small workshop to test the minerals in the mountains of Wicklow, somo portion of which I own.’ The astonishing thing (Mr Heaton thinks) is that whilst Parnell’s hundreds of thousands of adherents were ! fulminating against the Times, ho was quietly working away testing minerals in I his laboratory.”

While the oratorio “ Paradise ” was he in" given by the Pilgrim Choral Society of°Montclair, N.J., in tho First Congregational Church there, one of tho soloists had just finished singing a recitative “ Man fell,” telling the story of the fall, when a bench, supporting a dozen women singers, nave way, throwing all to tho floor. No one was hurt, but the fall was too much for tho big audience and everybody jaughed. A chemist named Christopher do Lacy | Clarke, carrying on business in North Sydney, committed suicide while laboring uuder a .fit of despondency owing to illhealth. He leaves a wife and child. I The approaching Coronation Holds first place in conversation, I The world will stop still Edward’s crowned, Then recommence its daily round; While those who gave a loyal cheer I May be dead within the year, Unless for colds they do procure I W. E. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure,