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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXII, Issue 16, 16 August 1895, Page 20

Lace is a fahric ihst c .n be made to represent large amounts of money. The Aato.B have ocen credited with owning lace worth six thousand pound?, and tho Vandernilts value their laces at eight hundred thousand pounds. The Pope ia said to he content with only fifteen thousand pounds represented in lace, and the Princess of Wales can boaot of fifty thousand pounds' wonh of the dainy fabric. The voice of the Grand Old Man bas been heard in public once more. On this occasion it was the good Burgomaster and leading cilizensof Hamburg who have been favoured with his eloquence. They were invited to dine on board the Tantallon. Castle, and Hert Monck; berg, th« Burgomaster, propnsed Mr Gladstone's health in an Englibh speech, in the course i-f which he said that " they had always kcown and respected him as one of the first statesman of the century, and as one of the b;-et men of hia time." Mr Gladstone made a neat and graceful speech in response, in which he dwelt upon the acquaint* ance of Hamburgers with the English lEnguage, which, he said, was an assurance and a pledge of a deep fraternal sentiment lying in the mind and character of these great countries, and which, as it was founded npon ancestral origin, he trusted it would be the will of God that it should continue through long and long generation", as a great security for the peace and happiness of the world. The reference to the common ancestral origin of the Eng is>h and Geiman nations was pretty and effective. The Old Man bas not yet lost his canning— we trust the day may be distant when be shall do 80.