Dollis Hill, where Mr. Gladstone was so frequent a guest of Lord Aberdeen, nas Deen bought up for the public by' the Willesden District Board, assisted by the Middlesex County Council and by indi dual subscribers, and it has just been thrown open to the public as 2 memorial to Mr. Gladstone under the name of "Gladstone Park." It has cost £50,000 to buy up the property; and it has not yet been decided what shall be done with the mansion, which isat_ present in the occupation of Sir Hugh Gilzean Reid, the well-known provincial newspaper proprietor and journalist, who sat as a Radical for Aston Manor in the short Parliament of 1886-7. The park is situated in the far north-west of London, in the Willesden district; but at the rate at which London is spreading it will soon be in the midst of a dense population, who will have reason to be thankful that the opportunity of securing this "lung" in perpetuity was seized while it was still available,
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