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New Zealand Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 3443, 26 May 1898, Page 3

THE LATE ME GLADSTONE. tf Now is tho stately column broke; The boacnn light i* quenched in smoke; The trumpet's silver voice Is sfciU; The warder silont on the hill.” —Scott (Introduction to “Marmion.”) fXIHIS week's issue of the JT E W ZEALAND MAIL, To be published on THURSDAY, the 2Gth, WILL CONTAIN A BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, “THE STATESMAN. THE PATRIOT, THE MAN," Speoially -written and compiled for the MAIL. Tho Record, whioh will occupy over TWENTY COLUMNS, ' Will be of a moat exhaustive character, tracing Mr Gladstone’s career right through life. The following synopsis will give an idea of its scope : WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE [IBO9-1898.] His Forebears Schooldays —At Oxford — Member for Newark—His Maiden Speech —ln Peel’s Ministry-Gladstone’s Marriage —’From 1841 to 1851—Some Byinoidents 1850-51—In Office with Lord • Aberdeen—Gladstone and Palmerston — Disraeli’s Little Trap—A Curious Change of Front—The Fight Over the Paper i Duty—The Rnssell-Gladatone Ministry— The “ Dishing of the Whigs ” and After —I he First Gladstone Administration— Gladstone’s Opinion on Home Rule in 1871—Disraeli’s Triumph in 1874—The Bulgarian Massaores —Tho Downfall of “ Dizzy’’—lrish Troubles—Egypt, The Soudan and The Transvaal —The ’* Fourth Party ” —Defeat of the Government —The First Homo Rule Bill—Dark but not Despairing Days—Prime Minister for the Last Time—Mr Gladstone as a Debater—. Mr Gladstone as a Book-lover—The Closing Scenes of a Groat Career —Finis. A limited number only of Extea Copihs will be Pbintbp. ORDERS SHOULD BE GIVEN AT ONCE. NOW HEADY. WELLINGTON RUGBY FOOTBALL ANNUAL. The largest and best publication of its kind in the Colony. Ovna 200 Pages Of Interesting Reading Matter. Sis Splendid Photographs. See tho Now Features and Speoially written Articles. THE LAWS OF THE GAME, With all English and Colonial Rulings. “ A NEW ZEALAND TEAM FOB ENGLAND,” By Mr. T. B. Ellison. ‘‘NUMBER ONE.” Full and Complete Record of International, Intercolonial, Interprovinoial, and Local Matches, np to date. Every footballer should procure one. PRICE ... ONE SHILLING. TO BE HAD AT ALL BOOKSELLERS. [A Cabd.J E MIL B allmuller, House Painter, Decorator, &0., Begs to notify that he performs all classes of workmanship, from the highest class of Decoration to the plainest outside Painting. Charges moderate. . . wl> Specimens of my work to be seen at A.M.F. Society's new building* Government Lite Insurance, and various leading establish* menta in the city. AnDBEBS No. 14, FEATHEBSTON STREET. 76 0. G. SHERWOOD, • Watchmaker and Jeweller, 92, Cuba street (Next door to Ayres' Botanic Dispensary), OH) Watches, from 40s; Silver Watches, from 17s 6d; Rotherham's Levers, from StUtai Watches, from ss; Silver Broshes, Is : Gold Brooches, from 4s 6d ; Bpeoa. from Is; Clocks and alarms, from 3s ; rat Gold Wedding Rings and Keepers, mment stumped. Watches cleaned or mainspring, from 2s 6d ; Watch GlassM^ " IK7HAT the fool does in the. end the W wise man does in the beginning/* He drinks only A. and B. Mabkay'a Liqueur Whisky. 936