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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2574, 7 August 1909, Page 3 (Supplement)

FAMOUS ESTATE SOLD. PURCHASE OF WITLEY PARK BY LORD PIRRIE. Witley Park, near Haslemere, lias been sold through Messrs Knight, Frank, and Rutley, London, to Lord Pirrie (head of Messrs Harland and Wolff), who lias also purchased some 1,500 acres of land adjoining belonging to the Earl of Derby. Lord Pirrie thus becomes tho possessor of one of the most beautiful estates in Surrey, the part of which known as Lea Park was associated with the late Whitaker Wright. Before his arrest he spent about £700,000 on the mansion and .grounds, one of the wonders of which was a glass hall beneath a lake. The property extends from near the village of Witley to the Hindhead Punch Bowl and Gibbet Hill. It has many interesting historical associations, having formed portion of the Hindhead Deer Forest of Queen Elizabeth. The purchase -price is not stated, but it cannot be far short of £200,000.

WHY THE JEW SAVES.

THE RESULT OF CENTURIES OF PERSECUTION. The Bishop of Stepney, speaking at the annual meeting of the East London Fund for the Jews held at Church House, Westminster, said he believed that the Jew’s love of money was partly due to the very terror which had come upon him' through the age-long hunting. He hoarded because we had thieved, and ho saved because he never knew- when and where he might be stranded in destitution. 'He believed that we were largely to t blame for the Jew’s tenacity in regard'to money. The Bishop of London said that they had met in support of the most unpopular, the most difficult, and yet the most repaying work connected with the Church of England. It was unpopular for three 'reasons. Some people did.not like the Jews at all, and would have nothing to do with them. Others felt that, as the .Jews had a religion, why should they interfere with it. Others again thought they ought not to use the.fact that they were showing hospitality to a people to force a religion upon them.'

He would like to answer those tlireo things. In the first place, no Christian had any right to dislike the Jews; Christ when He came to, earth sa w fit to be born a Jew. As to the Jews having a religion, we were paying the greatest honor to that religion by showing them the completion of it, the coping stone. With regard to the hospitality argument, wo were in offering them Christianity, offering them the best we had got." The Jews had wonderful energy, find wonderful power, and if they would be won over they would make the Jewish portion of East London the most forward and spiritual of all. '

A Yankee officer was bragging about the crack shots in his corps. . “Ob. that’s nothin’ to the way wo' shoot,” said another. ' “I belonged to a company of a hundred men, and every week we used to go out to practise. The eap’ji would draw us up in single file, and set a cider barrel rollin’ down hill. Each man took a shot at tho bung-hole as it turned up. The barrel was then examined, and if there was a shot found that didn’t go into tho bung-hole, the man that fired it was expelled. I’ve belonged to that company for ten years, and there ain’t boon nobody expelled yet.” N