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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1055, 24 November 1903, Page 3

Lady Audrey, Buffer lias teen presented with a painting containing portraits of all the officers who served under General Buffer in South Africa.

The ratepayers of Ilford, : England, have decided to advise the urban district council to decline Mr Carnegie’s offer of £IO,OOO for a public library..,

The King has promised 'to give a new lectern, made of gun-metal, to the parish church of St. Thomas, at (Portsmouth, which has been undergoing renovation. A large old china meat-dish; which stood on six legs and had often been used by George 111., when he used to visit Portland, has been on show lor years at the Portland Arms Hotel, Portland. A visitor has just bought it lor £3OO/

Seven men of the Antarctic relief ship Terra Nova were sent to gaol at Hobart for being absent without leave.

A sailor named Bobert Adams was lost overboard from tbe American barque Carrolton on her voyago from Puget Sound to Sydney.

Tom Morris, who has resigned his post of greenkeeper to tho North Berwick Club, is probably the be3tknown golfer in the world. He has kept himself as green as his own beloved putting grounds, hut now he feels the weight of bis 82 years beginning to tell upon him, though there is but small sign of it in ths sturdy figure or the doep grey eyes that follow the flight of many a truly-driven ball across the liok=. Among tho many amusing reminiscences which Old Tom treasures is ono of a former champion who backed himself somewhat heavily to win the championship belt. The night before the match, however, he was indisposed, and on coming down in the morning he called off all his hots. “ Syne,” says Tom, sniggering, “ he went oot an’ won tho belt [” He also tolls how his old master, Allan Bobertson, playing with a near-sighted opponent, stuck a green hairpin in front of tho hole, and vastly enjoyed his opponent’s distross at being unable to hole in. Bobertson and Morris, i>y the way, formed such a strong combination that they were never once beaten.

Thus the Westminster Gazette : There is sometimes an indiscretion in ingenuousness ; and that may prove to have been tho case with tho exclamation of the Times: “It is a perfectly astonishing thing that it seems to have been left to some of the more clear-sighted opponents of Mr Balfour and Mr Chamberlain to perceive that they are playing the game with the perfect mutual understanding and the consummate skill of a pair of accomplished whist-players.” But there were some humble friends of those great men who evidently perceived this just as soon as their 11 more dear-sighted opponents,” for during the last week there was to be heard in a popular London music hall the significant though halting verse : We all admire our Birmingham Joe, For ho is the business-man of the show, And when to Balfour he said 11 1 will go,” He whistled — And the singer, amid the laughter of the audience,- who perceived the point as readily as if they lived in Printing House Square, filled out the line by whistling a few bars of “ Say Au Bevoir, but not Good-bye."