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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1911-2-9, Page 3?"For Tei You Cctn't Boat Lipton's" Millions Who Drink It Beconznlend to You, Delicious UPTOWST E Over 2,000,000 Pno: algos Sold Weekly. PREY Of ii LAND SHARKS !! IIIE TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF A NAVAL OFFICER, Lind to Swim. Ashore With the Mien Pursuing Him 'in a Boat. On the 12th March, 1904, -the Mediterranean Fleet arrived off .Corfu, and the Admiral signalled, "Twenty-four hours' leave by wat- iihes; to commence on Monday, the 21st, at 7 a.m." Thus it came ab- out that troops of bluejackets land- ed on the following Monday morn. ,ing, and amongst those who set out to enjoy themselves was Wil- liam Daniels, petty officer of H. M. S. 'Intrepid. For hours he explored the town •and surrounding country, and at :last, finding it was .very late, rthought it advisable to seek lodging 'for the night. Being unable to , find. this, however, he decided to /return to his ship, and going down Ito the quay, found some dozens of •Gr,eek and Italian boatmen clamor - ding for a fare. He selected a boat lin charge of two' Greeks, and, lumping in, told them to pull to the Intrepid. The boatmen were big, hulking fellows, dressed in rather loose, baggy trousers and open - fronted shirts, and, as ultimately transpired, both carried knives in .,their pockets. SHOW THEIR COLORS. After they had pushed off from 'the shore Daniels leaned back in the stern of the boat, lazily con- templating the hills in the distance. Suddenly he was brought ' to his bearings by seeing the two boatmen smartly unship their oars, and just smartly each man drew a knife. Quick as thought they leapt into .the stern of the boat and demanded the sailor's money. They then pro -seeded to tine his pockets, du-ing which unpleasant prooess Daniels :sat perfectly still, offering no sora rof resistance. He realized that be Bad two des- perate criminals to deal with. "This was the situation as it pre- :rented itself to me," Daniels. said, when relating the incident after- wards. "The men, I knew, would not dare to land me alongside the Intrepid, for fear that I should 'have them detained. Furthermore, they could not put me ashore, be- dause discovery would ; be equally euro these, and we should probably .come across some of my shipmates. Evidently, then, they meant to kill me and dispose of my r body. Des- perate measures, it was evident, -were necessary if I wished to save :my life." Having rifled his pockets, one of the men turned to his companion •and said something in Greek. This was Daniel's opportunity. While the man had his back half turned towards him and head as well as I possibly could, • "It was no good, however, for the knife in my right hand also: began to 'cut from the wrenching motion, and, losing my hold on the, two weapons, I FELL BACK EXHAUSTED. HE LEAPT TO HIS FEET, struck him a severe' blow on the side of the face, and knocked him into the bottom of the boat. Then ho turned his. attention to the other man. "As I made for him;" said Dan- iels, "he"thrust his knife savagely .at my stomach -the spot for which ruffians of this class invariably :ani. I caught the weapon with niy left hand, but, unfortunately for ..myself, by the blade. With my dis- rengeged right hand I• fought hard '.to get possession of • the knife, 'which would have put me on better 'fighting terms with the scoundrels. 'The boat rocked violently with our •quick movements, and, to make matters worse, the man .I had ;knocked down had recovered, him - 'self and was now striving to aid his comrade. ' leacltwards and forwards we .lurebed, this way and that, and during this terrible: struggle.the knife -blade cut deep Ines) my,lland.. •By this time, however, the other pirate had managed tc,, rise, and' :thrust at. me viciotiely with his ilcnife. With my right hand I caught the knife. endeavoring to wrest it from him, This, however, I was not able to do, as the pair Were , raining blows on to my bead and neck with their hands, while, clinging desperately to the two knives, 1 kept my head bent to .save my faro; fighting with my feat Thereupon both the men seized me, trying to batter my head on the stern of the boat,' but I prevented this by thrusting my neck forward and keeping it• stiff, receiving the wi blows on my shoulders. •One,of the about 1,500,000, representing $700,- { repelling torpedo attack, d which ruffians made a thrust at my -body, .000,000, This is exclusive of small three 51 inch torpedo tubes thep oint of the knife penetrating oraft. 1discharge automobile weapons that my jumper and jersey,but a quick Germany is building 153,000 cans can travel 7,000 yards under water, Per backward movement saved me from and fitting: out 125,000 tons; elle' It has been reported that the receiving further damage. As I United • States is building 80,000 British Admiralty was about to con- y la quite still, however, utterly ex:: tons and fitting out 70,000 tons, and street a motor Dreadnought. The hoisted, they no doubt eonolude&7iance'is building 46,000 tons and only foundation for this report is that the last blow had done its fitting out 110,000 tons. !the fact that the Admiralty has deadly work, `: for they. 'promptly The naval correspondent of the decided to experiment with oil en_ seized me by the head and heels London Daily News compiled a coin- ` gin'es fitted to an obsolescent crui and dropped me into the water." I partitive table of battleships launch- ser. It is contrary toAto ala t ed a convert. But ;the .fight"for'life was not yet, ed and completed by the Powers in practice, it. is pointed out, p Fromthecentre of the hall the ver, The cold water revived Dan -11910. Armored ships completed into a first class battleship engine of a type which have not been test- ed previously and found satisfac- tory in smaller vessels. Great 'Britain is about to intro 00ST 01! I4AVAL VESSELS NOV ENDER 00NSTJLUCU'ION. nought battieshlps, but her design embodies an important inodi$.cst,' titin in respect of the disposition of the main arm hent. All .British Dreadnoughts so far eompleted have ten 12 ineh guns, and this is also the ease with the Neptune; but whereas none of the earlier ships can Are more than eight guns 'This Greet Satin is for Pettleshipe ou the broadside the Neptune, van and Armored Cruiselrs trein all her big guns on either beam, Only, She has three gum turrets on the ventre "line, one forward and two According to the returns corn- aft; and the turrets on that beam piled by "Lloyd's Register of Ship' are arranged diagonally, so that ping" the total number of warshltrs they can Are en either broadside. Astern the aftermost turret is on a lower level than that immediately behind it, so that the latter can fire over the former. The principal. dimensions of the now boing built in the United Kingdom for the J3ritish Govern- ment is fifty-nine, the aggregate displacement being 280,665 tons. At the Government dockyards six war- ships aro under construction for Neptune are: Length, 510 feet; the Government (one . battleship, beam, 85 feet; draught, 27 feet; n armored cruiser, rem eland weight of hull 12,450 tons dis- with a total displacement of a 0,480 25,000 horse -power; cost of armee tons. At. private yards there are went, $702,500; total cost, exclud- five battleships, three armored ing stores, $8,642,200. cruisers, four protected. cruisers,' in addition to ten 12 inch guns thirty-six torpedo boat destroyers of the new 50 calibre pattern, weigh - and five submar�oes under con- ing 65 tons 17 hundredweight and struction, with 223,785 tons' total each firing a shell of 850 pounds, displacement. !capable (at muzzle range) of pas- ` Statistics frown another source sing clean through a steel plate show that the total number of bat- •40 INCHES THICK, tleships and armored cruisers now • being built by the nations of the the Neptune is furnished with six world is seventy, with a tonnage of teen 4 inch quick firing guns for class cruisers and two submarines), placement, 19,900 tons;' turbines, t,rm :.r� n sV't a1 IIb4DY IT OR U$ IN ANY QUANTITY For snaking SOAP, $oft- ening water, removing old paint, diuinfecting ilnkr ctoeete and drain end for many other purposes A cat .equals 20 nee Dal r, $oda. .Jseful for five hundred purposes. datd EVrrNml,ere # . E. W. 011lett Co., Ltd. lx• Toronto, Ont. inat RETORTS OF THE POLITICIANS A FEW ECHOES F1IO�L RECENT BRITISH ELECTIONS. A. Collection of Anecdotes Which May Give Hiuts to Public Speakers. 44 a meeting in ,Liverpool during the last British general'election a candidate 'Was eloquently appeal- ing for the support of his audience. Suddenly .a raucous voice bellowed forth, ' I'd rather vote, for the devil." Swiftly but sweetly came the re- • tort, "Fes, but, as'your champion is not standing, may I not rely up- on your vote?" This not °illy brought down the house, but secur- eulogyof .the candidate was inter- rupted with the remark, "I never saw a bigger fool in my life." of wring year, got go home and look in the wards him }vita the intention glass," was the instant rejoinder, runningthe boat against his head. mored ships. These were he three dune into her navy a new type of g J g which set the meeting in a roar. Time after time they nearly sic- battleships provided forin the 1907- despatch vessel capable of steam- The laughter increased as amidst ceeded in braining the gallant sail -08 estimates (St. Vincent, Coiling ing between` 38 and 40 knots an cher g` te's sthe omt or who in the meantime cried out wood and Vanguard), which have hour. Several of them will be laid' cited of'Efe'sinterrupter going,"got up and left down atan early date. •the hall. „ , At another meeting an elector SERVANT PROBLEM IN JAPAN. was unkind enough to hurl an anci- ent About As Acute As It Is In This egg at the candidate who was A speaking. It missed its intended Country. victim and struck the wall, its ma - The servant question, in Japan 'is lodorouscharacter at once beton;- fully as acute as in Western lands. ing evident. The servants are notably .unreli- The candidate paused for a mo - able, but' most hotels and private ment,.looked at the bespattered houses-keep;them because they are wall, and then at gentle and 'cheap -while they stay. ` THE EGG -THROWER, Unfortunately, they are particu- larly fond of playing the vanishing following this.up with the remark, trick on their mistresses. Evelyn "Can you wonder that the Oppo- Adam, writing in the Wide World sition fail, seeing that their aim is Magaino, instances, a few cases of as rotten as their arguinents 1" desertion for inadequate cause. Talking of eggs is remindful of A lady friend of mine possessed the reply given by the late Sir a very good man servant -a perfect Henry Havelock -Allan to the throw - treasure. She happened to be an er of an egg at. an election meeting. artist, and every day when she In this instance the aim was truer went to paint in the woods this than in the previous one, for the egg struck Sir Henry on the neck. Pausing in his speech and fixing his gaze on that part of the hall iels; and " he struck out boldly for' for service are taken first. land. The assassins,' however, no- GREAT BRITAIN, . tined his recovery, and rowed to- d the ready five ar loudly for help. He only evaded been passed into commission; the the bow of the boat by sinking at Neptune, which was commissioned each critical' moment and allowing for service recently, and the armor it to pass over hum. ed cruiser Indefatigable, which has He was almost exhausted with passed her trials, but which will the chase,and still some distance not be commissioned for a few from the shore, when'' he was at weeks yet.. g len th gratified to see the lights of Against this total of five. ships some. boats Doming out to the res- Germany..van show three. (Rhein- cue. •His cries had been heard at land and Posen, battleships,• and last, and the assassins fled. Ile re- Von der Tann, armored cruiser); lated the story of his terrible ad- France, none; United States, none; venture to the police, who at length Japan, one (Satsuma, battleship); arrested two men; but Daniels fail- Italy,' one (San •:Marco, armored ed to recognize .them, and, so far, cruiser);, Brazil, two (Minas Ger the real culprits have not been cap- aes and Sao Paulo, battleships), ruled, and Austria Dna (T;izherzog Franz Ferdinand, battleship). TWO GOURMANIiS. Great Britain also took first place as. regards the launching of ships. Big Ships, Wm' Spend $1,500,000 In., the spring, there •were launched Each. Year for Supplies. the Hercules and Colossus, battle - Some'. $60,000 worth of American ships of 29,380 tons, each armed A t food and drink Will' be loaded aboard the two new ocean steam- ers Olympic and Titanic each time one of these big liners docks in New York_, according to the commissary officers who are victualling such ships. Should the Government make their landing .there possible by lengthening two of the Chelsea piers, these tido ocean liner8\ can bring and take away 2,700 passen- gers on'each voyage, in addition to a. crew' of 800; If both boats are able to begin their regular' trips next spring to piers. adapted to their bulk, $1,500,000 will be'spent in New York iii a year simply to stock their capacious larders. For, meats alone $15,000 is to. be paid each time either of the big sister ships comes into port. Large quantities of beef, lamb, pork,' veal and mutton will bo brought from ail over the country, and ,stacked away jn refrigerators that must'. hold enough to feed,3,500 people on •a transatlantic voyage. Waggon- loads of poultry costing $5,400 are to be added to this array, with piles of fish 'worth $2,000. For shellfish the orders of the ship's cooks will amount to $1,200' in addition. Farmers from all about the neigh boring coiintry will be milled upon to send $4,600.worth of butter, cream and milk to be used on each trip of these big boats, while $1,800 is also to be spent solely for eggs, and $3,200 for vegetables. Fruits worth $3,500 are to be added to the ship's stores, while its bakery' will lay in flour 'to the extent of $2,300 on each voyage. The biggest bill next to that for ineats will,,be $5,- 000 for all sorts of groceries. Far away in the frigid depths . of the new liner's cold: storage cdmpart- ments'$1,200 worth of ice cream is to be stored. For cigars $2,000 will be spent,' Wines and spirits costing 85,000 are sot down as necessary for each shipload of passengers, together with some $3,000 worth of beer and mineral waters, Altogether the lowest cost of vic- tualling such boats as the Olympic and Titanic is set down os 856,200. She -"How far can your; ances- try be traced?" He -"Well, when my grandfather resigned his posi- tion as cashier ok a country bank they traced him as far as China; but hb got away," " ed, Dreadnoughts, of which Great leaving thus suddenly, Britain has twelv,•,, Germany five, "Oh," replied °here, "just as. I the United States sour, France nil was 'washing the plates yesterday, suet Japan one., T reniembered that Saito San, the t ht Neptune,pawnbroker wanted a wifd, There - The super -Dreadnought g which was comniitemeed at Ports- mouth the other -day, is THE BIGGEST BATTLESHIP afloat in European waters. She was laid down at .Portsmouth on January 15, 1909, and was launch- ed'on September 30, 1909. She has thus been completed for sortie° in a week under two years. In general details the' Neptune with ten 12 inch guns; ttgus saw treasure carried her easel. One the launch of the 2,680d -breaking afternoon he returned without em Orion,' displacfug'92,680 tone a" important piece of it. Although armed_ with, ten *' of the new 13.5greatly annoyed, she said nothing, from which the egg had been thrown guns ;'and alio of; the battle cruiser ,knowing that her 'pearl" was sen- the candidate smilingly exclaimed, from Spain for the most part, Lion, which is to displace 26,360 sitive to criticism, like. most of his "I say, friend, the hen that laid NOT FROM ODR COLONIES. tons, to steam' twenty-eight knits race. But the effort at self-control that egg had very bad breath." "Now, if you put an import tax The disturbing powers of one man on oranges it will not do our col - with a big voice at a political meet- onies any good, and moreover-" ing are great. This'was well illus- The man was going on at great trated at Glasgow, where, seated length when the Captain stopped in the centre of a group of his sym- him. pathizers in the middle of a long "Say,"' lie said, regarding his seat, a man would persist in inter-` heckler genially, "what as awful jetting remarks. nuisance you must be to your The meeting, indeed, was on the friends I' point of prov'in'g a fiasco through The chairman of a Liberal asse- t sallies, •when suddenly ciation in the East of Scotland, a voice rang out from the platforms who is also a landlord proprietor in `'Shut up, Smith, or I'll send for; the county, was presiding over a your wife." The audience simply rather turbulent audience. Number roared, but none so much as the one, a flourishing commission agent interrupter's own particular sup- with a rubicund countenance, got porters. - up and in an angry tone said to Well they might, too, for nobody the chairmen: - audience, "I guess it's cured yer, guv'nor !" Almost as damaging was an in- terruption of which Sir William Temple was at one election meet- ing the victim. He had come straight from his duties in India to become a candidate for this parti- cular seat, and proceeded to.tell the meeting of the fact. He remarked that he had "travel- ed 8,000 miles and surrendered £5,- 000 for the privilege of contesting and, he hoped, representing this great constituency" The statement seemed likely to carry great weight with the audi- ence until the whole effect was spoilt by some merciless wag amongst them suddenly shouting out, HISTORIC ROSLIN CHIAPEL. THE BURIAL l5JsACE o1 Ta1E S'1', CIiAllt. >1!' .11L1LY, La of (bo Last Illinstrel" Tefl the '1'radltiou of Earls of Iloslin. Roslin Chapel, in the grounds of which the late Countess of West- moreland was laid to rest recently, has been the family burial place of the Sb. Clair family for about 400 ld tra- dition, thears, y early Earls of an �Rossiyn were, laid in the vaults beneath the chapel without wind clad in their armor, and having their weapons by their sides. Sir Walter Scott, in his "Lay of the, Last Minstrel," refers to this tradition, and also to the legend that, when a member of the family died, an unearthly light blazed from the chapel. Harold sings how "OH, WHAT A FOOL!" A certain Unionist Fandidate, holding. a meeting in Auld Reekie in January, at which, the' heckler was much in exidenoe, failed to give a single answer which was judged to be satisfactory by his au- dience. Towards- the end of the meeting. a canny elector rose and quietly asked: - "Sir, would you tell us what might be the name your second initial stands for?" The unfortunate candidate, great- ly puzzled.at the purport of the question, asked in what way might that interest the audience. "Just to see if you could answer one question, anyway," came the reply -and the resolution was ne- gatived amidst much laughter. Of the few nippy retorts that lent zest to the last general elec- tion, one is: credited to Sir Robert Cranston. An elector of somewhat pompous bearing was heckling' the genial knight, and a section of the audience made no attempt to sup- press their feelings. "I must be heard," shouted the consequential gentleman, "for I belong to the town. "That may be," responded Sir Robert: "but the town doesn't be- long to you." Captain Ward -Jackson, who un- successfully contested South. Man- chester in January last conducted his campaign on genial lines. At one of his meetings he had been sorely put to it by the hecklers. Oranges, said one of them, ,came and to carry eight of these same powerful weapons. GERMANY launched two ships (Oldenburg, battleship, and Moltke, armored Bruiser); ,France, the battleship, 'Vergniaud, and the United States the battleship Florida.' Japan, Au- stria and Greece also- launched one armored ship (]Cawachi, Ziinyi and • A lady of my acquaintance in Giorgio Averoff respectively; , no. Tokyo possessed a valuable mosan others were launched during the of •somewhat mature years who.re- year- joined in. the poetic name of "Ohara Lastly, as to the ships laid down San" -"The Honorable Miss Groat. Britain claims six -the bat Spring." tleships Thunderer, Conqueror and One day Miss Spring brought in Monarch and the armored cruisers luncheon. All . seemed serene; Princess Royal, Australia and New jthere was not a shadow of a cloud knew better than they what ater- Zealand. Germany has laid clown 'in the domestic sky. But at tea- ror- Smith's wife was in her own four (lirsatz. Aegir, Arsatz Hagen time no tea appeared; neither;.' m territory, or how she was dreaded sill Ersatz Odin, battleships; and answer to calls, at first patient and by her noisy spouse. He collapsed was entirely wasted, as things turned out, for.the • man came the next day to "give notice." "Why do you wish to leave?" the mistress asked, in deep .distress. "Surely you are not upset over the easel? I sand nothing about it, did I?" "'No," the Mian admitted, "but you mads a. difioult face," the armored cruiser J). Two ships afterward impatient, did Oharu. have been commenced for the Unit- After a while the lady wont herself ed States (Wyoming and Arkansas, to the back regions and found -de - battleships), and two for France solation. The charcoal -box was (Jean Bart and Courbet, battle- filled with gray ashes, the kettle ships.) cold, half the luncheon plates lay The following is a brief statement immersed in a bowl of soapy water ; of the Dreadnoughts now actually the other half stood on a sink ready tobe put away. aril er- selfsimplywas nob The next morning,owever, she reappeared, very much on'her own at once, so the hint conveyed in a note to the chairman was the means of SAVING THE SITUATION. At the 1906 election a speaker was addressing an audience in the under .construction or ordered for d Oh h North of England. In the course the leading Powers: of his speech he happened to put his hands in his pocket, whereupon Ordered or - h 1 "a rude fellow of the baser sort" on the shouted from among the audience, Laurtehen Stocks Total pang manners, with a clean kin- "Take your hand out of your Great Britain ,. 4 11 15 ono, and her hair done in a shining pocket." • Germany ,".. 5 7 12 bun to denote the star' of a matr.o'e. The speaker, however, kept it Unitech States . 2 4 6 'demanding the fragment of wages there, quietly replying, "I put niy France :. 0 2 2 due to her since the beginning of .hand into my pocket; the interrup- Japan . ..........2 0 4 the month, The lady expostulated, Those aro in addition to couplet- and asked why the servant was fore 1 wont out and married .him," PROVERBS IMPROVED UPON. Poets are borne, not paid. Where there's a •bill there's a pay, A bird on the tree is worth two on the. hat. Flour by any 'other nano would cost 'as muoh, Hekven • help these who help is similar to Britain's earlier Dread themselves -without permission. ter is, perhaps, too fond of putting his into other people's." Thera was no further interruption from. that quarter, and the audiehoe were hugely delighted.' To be strictly impartial, one Should quote some instances where the laugh was with the interrupter. It was very much so in the case of a candidate who was wooing a cer- tain constituency in the provinces. In illustration of his great devo- tion to truth, the would-be M.P. stated at one of itis election meet- ings that he Underwent a thrashing when a boy for tolling the truth, Imagine the sickly fooling which came over him, when a gruff voice called out from' the 'centre of the "Don't you think I pay as much in the way of taxes as you do 1" "Perhaps you do," said the last- named gentleman: "but if there was a tax on lemonade I might beat you there." CONTENTMENT. Contentment is a happy bird, And many times we fail In our attempt to sprinkle salt lJpon its nervous tail. We reach our hand to capture it, But, lo, it isn't there! In place of bringing down the prize We get the bird of care. Some tell us if we eat and drink The proper kifid of food That we can lay our hands upon A member of the brood. Some say ib is a mental trick Arid we can so engage Our minds that we may view it there Before .us in a cage. At any rate, we find it is A most elusive bird That will not come for smiles or • frown, Or for a coaxing word, We cannot holie to own the bir In full and simple fee; About the hest that we can do Is view ittip a. tree. It glared on Roslin'a castled rook, It raddled all the copsewood glen; 'Twos seen from Dryden's groves of oak, And seen from cavern'd Haw- thornden. Seem'd all on fire that chapel proud, Where Roslin's chiefs uneofEin'd lie, Each baron. for a sable shroud, Sheathed in his iron panoply. Blaz'd battlement and pinnet high. Blaz'd every rose -Carved buttress fair, So still they blaze, when fate is nigh The lordly line of high St. Clair. • OPENED FOR SCOTT, specially to permit Scott to see them,and it has always been understood that he verified the tradition as to the Earls being buried in their armor. Recently it was discover that bodies had undoubtedly been bur- ied in the chapel without coffins; and while no armor was found, the a investigations were not of char- acter to discredit the tradition on • this head. Only the Earls themselves, their Countesses and their heirs at the time were buried inside the chapel; but these were laid to rest in the vaults till the present Earl's 'fath- er, who died twenty years ago, and' who, by his express desire, was buried outside, it being his wish that the sun should shine on his grave. That grave is in the north- west oorner of the chapel grounds, and his daughter. the Countess of Westmoreland, has been buried near the same place. She spent a good deal of her early life at Ros- lin, and had expressed a wish to be laid to rest there. BEAUTIFUL CHAPEL. The beautiful little private chap- el, which is believed to have been built in the fifteenth century, by William St. Clair, Earl of Roslin and .one of the Earls of Orkney, at• tracts thousands of visitors every year. Indeed, it is one of the sights which few visitors to Edin- burgh miss. In the vicinity of the old, ruined castle of Roslin, it oc- cupies a fine situation on the edge of a steep bank, which slopes d'own to the Esk. Its famous "Prentice Pillar," and the story connected, with it, are known far and wide.- Fall ide.Pall Mail Gazette. • ---- GLASGOW'S ANCIENT HIRES. Built by Fairies Said Superstitions of Early Trines. In the age of witchohaft and superstition it was believed that 1. the fairies built the old kirks in Glasgow and that they had a right to them; so said W. B. Patterson,. lecturing before the Old Glasgow ed the parishioners was very dif- Club. The accommodation afford- ferent from the present luxurious age. There were no pews in Scot- tish kirks before the reign of Charles I. Tho people had to bring their stools with them, and those who did not de this simply sat down on the floor. For the ev- ening service parishioners likewise, brought candlesticks and candles. On the question of the separation of the sexes, Mr. Patereonmention- ed the interesting fact that there still existed a church in the city • where this rule was observed. - London Globe, A LITTLE MAORI DEAL,. The Maoris of New Zealand and, whilst htolcling their annual gather- ings, do not believe in going hen - guy, as a glance through the foil ter- ing list of food consumed during a recent gathering will show. There were nine bullocks, twenty sheep, seventeen bags of shellfish, eight tons of potatoes, thirteen 501b., bags of sugar, 2001b. of cake, 1,100 21b. loaves,' 220 gallons -of milk, 4cwt. of item, eight 501b, boxes of butter, six large tins of fancy bis - nits, four eases of jani, two tone of eels, one ton of pumpkins, be- ,r sides condiments and sundries. Fourteen tons of firewood were its- ,t ed for 'hooking. The number of 1Maoris presenttyas 1,300,