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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1367, 31 January 1905, Page 4

HAVE STOOD A PUBLIC TEST

“ The close of the session of the New Zealand Parliament,” Bays a London paper, “ was characterised by boisterous humors, according to the accounts received by mail. Members sang 1 rollicking ohoruses,’ the press gallery gave throe cheers for Parliament, and Parliament, led by Sir J. G-. Ward, Mr Seddon’s chief lieutenant, returned the compliment with three cheers for the press. No reason is assigned for these unusually high Parliamentary spirits, beyond the suggestion that “King Dick ’ Seddon’s long reign had come to an end, that he would be in London as High Commissioner when the next session opened, and that now combinations, with frequent changes of Ministry, wore likely to follow tho removal of the masterful Mr Seddon from the scene.” An Italian named Fortunato Scillero, who for 40 years kept a wine shop at Bendigo, Victoriu, was found by his daughters hanging to a bedpost, dead. Since the doath of his wife, deceased had had indifferent health, and ho suffered from insomnia.

A burning accident resulting in tho | death of a young woman named Tessie Matthews is reported from Moree, New South Walos. It is supposed that she trod on a match, which set fire to her clothes, causing terrible burns about the body. Death ensued a few hours later. Sir Edward Fry, who has been appointed legal assessor to the Dogger bank Commission for 15 years sat upon the English bench. Then. 12 years ago, he retired, but only to find himself in as great demand as ever in settling disputes. He arbitrated in the South Wales coal dispute. He was chairman of the Court of arbitration on London water two years ago. He is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague, and he acted as Board arbitrator in tho preliminary inquiry at Grimsby on the Russian outrage. And he is still as ready for work as ever. His yoars weigh very lightly on him. Though bis hair and judi-cial-looking side whiskers are perfectly white, his eyes are as blight as ever, and his mouth is shut with as much determina-. tioh as it was 20 years ego. Busy man as he is, he has found time to write a great deal, and on all sorts of subjects. He has written essays on the Accordance of Christianity with the Nature of Man, several books on legal subjects which show his legal knowledge, one on British mosses, which shows how thoroughly he has ridden his hobby, and has even made an analysis of tho 1,664,000 sormons which he finds are preached in tho Church of England every year. There is not a subject on which he cannot talk, and talk well, for his fund of general knowledge is of the widest, and there is certainly not a subject in which he is not interested.

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