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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2195, 26 September 1907, Page 3

“A TENDERFOOT’S WOOING.” Our New Serial. 'na£i By CLIVE PHILLIPS-WOLLEY. Tlio proprietors of tlio “Gisboriio Times” have jileiisuro in announcing tlmt tlio hearty appreciation of Saturday’s Supplement shown by tlio genoral jiublie Inis warranted them in introducing a now featuro that should still further enhance its popularity. The copyright of a first-class serial ■story, written by ono of the foremost writers of the day, lias been secured, and the first instalment will b 0 commenced in next Saturday’s issue. THE AUTHOR. Hr. Clive Phillips-Wolley, author of ‘‘Gold, Gold in Cariboo,” “Tlio Ghicamon Stone,” “Sliouanette,” etc., is tlio present-day Fenimore Cooper. Mr. Wolley is a well-known Canadian minor, legislator, and biggame hunter. He has travelled in many lands—“ The Trottings of a Tenderfoot” describes real, stirring life in Spitsbergen ami within the Arctic Circle, and “Shouanetto” is a romance of Lesgliin, that wild dependency in the heart of Caucasus, which Russia holds by the sword. Tile two novels first mentioned above deal with -Western Canada in a stylo and with a vigor which no other living writer could attempt. Mr. Wolley’s activities as a big-game hunter led to his selection as the writer of a Big Game volume in tlio “Badminton Library” and other important work, while bis manual on the art of the Broadsword is a classic.

SYNOPSIS. Iu this story the author makes colonial life a living, stirring, graphic reality. With that rare power of visualising the scenes which he describes, he carries the reader on from incident to incident ill a way which makes the characters and the country live before him. Whilst following with muscles involuntarily .tense the powerful scenes enacted, the reader is inevitably reminded of the thrill with which he or she once read “The Last of the Mohicans. ’ ’ As the title suggests, the love interest is strong and persistent, and the good-natured and often self-sacri-ficing rivalry between the gnmo but raw young Englishman and the tough prairie-bred colonial forms a splendid theme for such a writer. To give a bare mention of the incidents of the story robbed of the action and glamor in which they are set would convey but jioor idea of its scope. The dins ix where the hero, with broken ribs still unhealed, makes a dash on his despised English hunter through the lines of Indians attacking the farm, and, gaining a lead by the tremendous leap of a chasm, sets out, now with a bullet in his arm, on liis fifty-mile ride for help, brings a thrill to the very roots of the hair. This is a story which no reader who likes a tale in which the heroes are real men and tlio heroines real women should miss.. Humor is not lacking in the mistakes into which the Englishman is led by his ignorance of colonial life at the outset, and altogether the story is powerfully entertaining.

rriO THE HONORABLE THE X SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED, the Humble Petition of the undersigned Residents of the Harbor District of Gisborne, showeth — 1. That your petitioners, ill common with the great majority of the residents in this Harbor District, are desirous that the question of the building of a deep-sea harbor at Gisborne shall be submitted to the vote of the ratepayers here without delay. 2. That your petitioners have seen with regret that the Local Bills Committee have recommended the postponement of the consideration of the “Gisborne Harbor Bill” until the next session of Parliament. 3. That the promoters of the Bill do'not request any assistance from the Government or Parliament of the colony, but are quite content to pay for the construction of the outer harbor, at Gisborne, if the legal inajority of the ratepayers in this district require such construction. 4. That your petitioners are aware that certain amendments and alterations have been made in the proposed Bill. 5. That your petitioners aver that there is a widespread feeling in this district in favor of the construction of an outer harbor at Gisborne, if 6Uoh a work can be accomplished without placing too heavy a burden upon the shoulders of the ratepayers, which must be decided by the .ratepayers themselves. , WHEREFORE YOUR PETITIONERS PRAY that your Honorable House will bo pleased to pass the “Gisborne Harbor Bill” as amended, as soon as it will suit the convenience of Parliament, in order that tlie question of constructing an outer harbor here may be at once submitted to the ratepayers for their decision. And your petitioners will ever xiray. Mr. Graliamo Johnstone is authorised to obtain signatures to the abovo petition.

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