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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2420, 6 May 1893, Page 4

Mr, Gladstone "as a Daring Diner Out, ■» . . The London Court Journal says : — "Mr Gladstone dines out with a regularity and daring that could not be excelled by a man of half bis year a. One who meets him often at these gastronomic tournamento says that Mr Q.s participation in their* enjoyments is by no means perfunctory. Some men past 60, BtiU dining out, enjoy themselves under severe restrictions, daintily picking their way through the menu. Mr p. .past 80, is apparently under no Bucbjf restrictions. He eats what comes, g an e rally ri<?ht through the menu, and ca» take hie giass of port after his Ji^ationfof champagne, a tost from which', many jp ardent diner out would Bhi'iok.v Hisjßnental activity is on a par with nw'phyncal vigour. His conversation is a^cevtf flagging flood, brimful of interes\/if it were only possible to reproduce a verbatim report of hia conversation at a dinner-party, where the personal surroundings are sufficiently interesting to excite him to talk, there would be produced a volume of interest, biographical, autobiographical, and historical. His memory is marvellous, and his power of graphically recalling an •- incident iB the admiration of even the gentlemen behind the chairs." Mr Gladstone is to be congratulated on possessing a perfect liver, not all men can say the same ; the slightest over indulgence in eating or drinking is sufficient with some people to upset the lirer and cause bilious attacks; these eventually lead to eeriouß disease