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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2119, 19 February 1908, Page 5 (Supplement)

Queen Maud of Norway has been described as one of the cleverest members of the British Itoyal Family. She is talented beyond the average, reads hard, writes both prose and poetry, and speaks fivo languages fluently. Then she knows many minor arts.and crafts, sews and spins well, can carve wood, bind a book, take a photograph, knit a stocking, play chess, and use a typewriter. And Queen Aland is a good athlete, rides well, can sail a boat, pull an oar, skate cleverly, and has of late taken up the pastime- of ski-ing. She is also a keen cyclist, and may often be seen wheeling about the lanes near Sandringham. Children are one of her greatest interests. The story goes that once, when a school class was under examination for her amusement, she took a shy little girl on her knee, and the child’s answers instantly showed a marked improvement. The secret, however, came out lator on, when the little one said to her teacher, “Please, ma’am, the lady told me what to say.” “It was announced recently that the King bad appointed Af’ss Florence Nightingale to the Order of Merit. Miss Nightingale, who is in her eigh-ty-eighth year, is best remembered as. the organiser of the nursing in the Crimean AVar. She is a Lad- of Grace of St. John of Jerusalem, and the author of several valuable books on nursing. After the Crimea Al ar a fund of £50,000 -was raised us a testimonial to her, the whole of which she devoted to -the Nightingale Home for the training of nurses. Aliss Nightingale is the first woman upon whom the Order has been conferred.” The estates of the Duke of Portland, over which the famous Druco case arose, consist of 182,754 -acres, which produce an estimated income of £150,0.00 per annum. “General Booth, of the- Salvation Army, lias been invited to send to Canada 25,000 navvies, for whom work is guaranteed for ten years at j. ~i,,m 0 ,io« »