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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8969, 21 April 1890, Page 3

One week’s water consumption in London is 186,383,203 gallons. Mrs Gladstone is only one year younger I than her husband, and in her early days was ' hardly known .to the public except through her devotion to her husband, but she recently made a speech in a public meeting in London . in place of her husband to satisfy the expectancy of the,crowd, when Mr Gladstone was too weary to.be present i; has since laid the corner-stone tea charitable institution in Wales, witfi a speech to the people, in which she declared that ehe .was proud to have been born a Welshwoman ; and has held a reception of friends at, Hawarden Castle, to which they have hied for a summer vacation. Certainly no woman in England need consider herself, old . until she is eighty, K especially if the Queen continues to wear . low necks and short sleeves, but she must 11 not venture if single to, marry a .young man—London letter. ~ 3