PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1546, 30 August 1905, Page 3

PERSONAL.

[Bulletin.']

Douglas Waddell, a N.B.W. bank'.rapt, has lam in gaol lor four months •.rathqr than answer questions as to what became of certain moneys, stating that he is bound by a promise whica he holds sacred. Public sympathy gathered round the young and presentable gentleman who maintained the dead silence, and the community was distinctly disappointed when the prisoner mentioned that the person to •whom he had pledged his word was a :man with a wife and young children. It had made up its mind that the pledge was given to a tall and noble ■Sjjfflon with a wealth of brown hair that curled naturally. “ Disorganised,” “ discouraged ” a.ud “ disheartened ” are the terms wlHich general Buller uses about the British land forces—-the forces which Lorn 1 - Roberts asserts are j ustyis bad aa at the time of the Boer war. How about\the navy, one naturally asks? The army has been tried in two large wars t.ritMn the last 60 years, and proved each time a brave but disorganised mob. The present navy hasn’t been tested at all, and hasn’t fired a shot in /anger, except at some nigger village, fi.’ Ousted Reid has broken all previous records in t.he way of Parliamentary grief by Bis howls since he was ejected from office. Deakin went out as though the House had done him a personal favor by voting against him. Watson smiled when notice-to-quit was delivered, and dropped, the ' subject. But Reid’s bleat has been something tremendous. For the past month Yes-No has been a huge waistcoat crying up and down the main street of Australia, and there is no present sign of his stopping. Chairman Bruce, of Melbourne Denton hat mills, to his shareholders : —.“We produce the best wool here, *nd our mill buys the best of that ; our machinery is identically the same ' as Italian, or English, and our workmen are as good as the best in any part of the world, yet there are persons who persistently run down home-made goods and run after and praise foreign shoddy. But I have never noticed these people turn up their noses at the •overeigns turned out by the Melbourne or Sydney mints l”