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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 386, 10 April 1902, Page 1

The latest advice is that the troop, ship Norfolk w 11 not leave Sydney till Friday. She will take in stores, etc., at Wellington, and then proceed to Lyttelton, whence she will sail on the 19th inst.

ii I am a dairyman,” exclaimed Sir 'William Harcourt the other night; and one’s thought flies to the New Forest, where the Ivnight of Mai wood has a. modest dairy farm of twenty acres. From it such commonplace commodities as eggs, poultry butter, milk, and vegetables come straight to the tables at Malwood, and in his hours of leisure, when such things as Budgets and Constitutions and Colonial Secretaries are not breaking in upon his peace, Sir William Harcourt finds some useful work to do in looking after his little farm. Four hundred chickens run abont at Malwood, so that Sir William has some right to talk about eggs; and among the live stock is a herd of Jersey and Guernsey cows. There is little either on the farm or in the house itself to remind the visitor of Sir William Harcourt’s service to the State, unless it is the pair of black Russian ponies presented to him by a Liberal admirer, or the engraved portrait of Mr Gladstone, which bears the signature of Sir William’s late chief,