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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2645, 29 October 1909, Page 3

An incident, which Colonel Newall said ■'should he preserved as showing the sweeter side of Maori character, was related at the Veterans’ conference at Wellington hy Captain Hursthouse. One Vercoe, who had married the daughter of the valiant chief' Rewi Maniapoto, was killed in the Maori war, and his wife returned to her people. Some time later Captain Hursthouse was passing "where. Vercoe’s widow lived, when she stopped him and handed him her husband’s medal, requesting him to restore it to her soldier husband’s people. This, said the speaker, showed a nobility’ of character on her' behalf. . Captain Hursthouse had been -unable to find Vercoe’s relatives, and the question was what was he to do with the medal. The delegates present did not know, so the .medal remains with Captain Hursthouse. That tired feeling and ran down, nervous condition is a warning of more deep-seated troubles. Build yourself up with Stearns’ Wine of Cod Liver Extract, the peerless tonic and tissue-builder. In the course of a most interesting lecture on the work of that great New Zealander, Professor Rutherford, at Wellington, Professor Laby said it was a strange thing, and one which he hardly liked to mention, that while Germany, Great Britain, America, Prance, Italy, and Canada had honored Rutherford, there was r.«-s a single copy of his works to be had in Wellington. Once a certain library in the city had spent the large sum of £2 a year on a scientific journal, the Philosophical Magazine, but by the time Rutherford was shaking the scientific world with his discoveries it had terminated its subscription. Next .time you feel a slight irritation in your throat, get a box of Zymole Trokeys and stop it. They give general satisfaction. - A spectacle of rare magnificence and beauty was seen, by those on hoard the big steamer Whakarua, while on her passage across the Southern Ocean from New York to Melbourne. On the night of the 22nd September, tho whole southern sky, reaching almost to the zenith, became streaked with hands of light, which assumed all colors from blood-red to golden. For three nights the aurora appeared with unabated brilliance, and gave a light almost as of day. Bitterly cold weather, with blinding snow-squalls, were experienced after rounding the Cape, while two small ice-bergs were sigbv?'.:. Tho spaces between the irsn railings that form the bulwarks 'of the ship were filled with ice, while the dedks were under show for days.