GENERAL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2263, 7 August 1908, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

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Mark Twain, sneaking as a guest of honor at a dinner given by the British Schools and Universities Club in New York, paid a. tribute to Queen Victoria, Her name, he said, will live for over on love earned and freely vouchsafed. She mended broken hearts when she could, but broke none. Continuing, Mark Twain said: —“What she did for America in our time of storm and s:ress we shnU not forget, and whenever wo call it to mind wo-will always remember the wise and righteous mind that guided her therein, sustained and supported her—Prince Albert’s.”

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