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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 449, 3 May 1890, Page 2

The election yesterday to flit two vacanciej in the Whataupoko Road Board resulted— Mr Bigley 15, Mr Daly end Mr BmaiU 10 each. Mr Quigley, Returning Officer, gave his casting vote in favor of Mr Daly, mentioning that it had been reported Mr Smaill would probably be leaving the district shortly, A remarkable illustration ot the nse of the telephone was given on March 14, when Mr Gladstone, by means of Edieon'a phonograph, addressed a meeting ot many thousand msmbers of the Mutual Building Association ot New York, The message was enthusiastically received, as not only was the voice ot the great statesman reproduced, but the distinct periods of the breathing pauses were heard. The message is as followslo. St. James' Square, London, The purpose of the meeting on the 14tb may, I conceive, be summed up in two words—self-help end thrift—and I cannot, although much occupied, refuse io send a few words of congratulation and goodwill. It is self-help that makes tha man, and man making is the aim which the Almighty has every impressed upon creation. It is thrift by which self-help for the masses dependent upon labour is principally made effective. For them, thrift is the symbol and instrument of independence and of liberty—indispensable conditions of all permanent human good. But thrift is also the mother of wealth : and hero comae a danger into view, for wealth is the mother of temptation, and leads many of its possessors into a new form of slavery, more subtle and not ises debasing than toe old. From this slavery all lands—and especially all lands of ths English longuehold themselves for eve; free, —Rf. R. Ghost on x,”