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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3330, 23 September 1911, Page 4

The plans for the new steamer Aquitania. which the Cunard 'Company is building at Clyde Bank, have been modified to make the vessel the largest in the world. Her length will exceed 900 feet, and will be ten feet greater than the length of the 50,000-ton liner Imperator, which the Hamburg-Ameri-can line will put into service in the spring of 1913. It is also stated that the Aquitania will be one knot faster than her .German, rival. Honiton Fair was declared open the other day by the town crier. Proceeding to the outside of the market hall, .and carrying a long pole on which a hitge gilt' glove and hunch of flowers, he rang the bell three times, then uttered the ancient formula : Oyez, Oyez, Oyez, the Fair’s begun; the glove is up. No one shall be arrested until the glove be taken down. God save the King. The town crier next proceeded to the King’s Arms Inn, and after repeating the declaration affixed the pole and glove to one of th© windows. Red-hot coppers were thrown to the crowd of children. A monarch redwood tree in the heart of the Santa Cruz grove, was dedicated to the cause of Christianity by the officers of the International Sunday School Association, who, accompanied by' a large number of delegates to the convention, which has_ just closed' its sessions in San Francisco, came from that city for that purpose, as well as to view, this section of the State. It is ai notable fact that the tree thus honored stands beside and towers above the one that years ago was dedicated to Robert Ingersoll. After the ceremony in the woods the party visited Santa Cruz and . Watsonville, their train being covered with flowers, and its occupants presented with Pajaro valley strawberries and other fruits.