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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1589, 31 March 1887, Page 3

Mr. Aldridge, hon. secretary to Manai; Sports Committee, requests us to stati that by an oversight the following eutrie: were omitted from the list publi-hed th' other day : — Alfred Wilson, for Mile Rac and Publican's Handicap ; F. Corbett, fo Manaia Cup and Hawera County Han dicap. The Hartly-Fredo family were greetei by a very fair house, for these dull times: at bhe Normanby Town Hall on Wednes day night. The various acrobatic feat ■were gone through -with much clevernes and precision, and the comedietta — Th Chinese Question — kept the audience i uproarious laughter from beginning t end. Well-founded reports are being circulate in the Liberal clubs, says an Euglish papei that Mr. Gladstone, though not actual! in pecuniary einbarasscLent, is so straine for funds that his friends aye urging hii to apply for the pension which is allowe to ex-members of the Cabinet when the become impoverished. He felt the loss < bis yearly salary of £5000 as Pkmbk eieVerely. When Mrs Gladstone heard < his resignation on tbe defeat of the Horn Rule Bill, she expressed her chargin at th loss of income^ saying to a friend : " W cannot afford it. The sale ot pamphlet and books adds to our income, but thi source does not suffice to meet the drai associated with a long-coutinued publi career. Mr. Gladstone has had man chances to make himself rich, but' he re mains poor and will die poor." :