BULLETIN ITEMS

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1492, 28 June 1905, Page 2

BULLETIN ITEMS

j British Prime Minister Balfour’s grand. I father was an army contractor in India, and was for a time suspended for taking tips from the rajahs. He made £300,000 I in four years, and then roturoed to SootI land, where ho married a daughter of the I Earl of Lauderdale. Ho is still remembered i in the Highlands with hatred beoause of I the farmers he ovieted to make the deer J forest of Strathconan in Rossshire j something after the fashion of the exoI crated William the Conqueror, when ho i planned out his New Forest. Joe Darling will only reoeivo £2OOO un-' dor the will of his father, whodoft £67,000, [ but ho has had the Tasmanian sheep-sta-tion already. Brother John, who wouldn’t bo Premier of B.A. when bo had the chance, and now hasn’t the chance, is to got £IO,OOO. There wore eight children, John and Joseph are joint trustees. Thcs. H. Thwaitos. father of the on- *. gineer-in chief of Melbourne Board of Works, has just celebrated bis 80th birth-

day. Ho arrived in Melbourne in March, '42, and carried an business with his father as a cabinet-maker. The first furniture;'' manufactured by the firm was made rAu John Batman’s kitchen. Now the -fcAJje, , has shifted from tbe white man’s kitchonV''* te the Chinaman’s bedroom* ' Mr Reid is apparently popula r'hr Queensland, and his visit has not been un» expeetod. At Clifton, a town of mushroom, growth, a band of rugged-looking farmers* crowded around the carriago window, to*

the accompaniment of exclamations such* as “ There’s ’im,” “ That’s Geogey,’*' “ Throw ’im a nut, an’ wotoh ’im aoratoh* 'isaelf,” etc,, etc.