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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 209, 3 September 1900, Page 2

A new story is related of a dodge resorted to by an ingenious. "Tommy" to escape the plague of women. A lady nurse rushing fervidly to her patients in a Capetown hospital ward found her favourite soldier fast asleep. Pinned to his coverlet was a scrap of paper on which he had laboriously .scrawled, "To il to, be missed to-day, respectfully, J.M." Of late years we have had rather more than a sufficiency of exposition of the gentle art of touring the world on nothing- but an ample supply of cheek, so one hardly expects that the brothers Cotelington—three Hindoos now on a world wallaby—will . find their path strewn with either roses or cash. They have managed to reach London—which is not surprising since they paid their passage from Bombay —and are going to sing and preach; their way through England after, of course, a trip to Paris. If the provinces yield enough of the necessary to enable them to get together sufficient to pay for an Atlantic passage in addi-, tion to their keep they will proceed to America and thence make their way to Australia, returning to the purple East by way of Japan and China. That is their purpose, but it is quite on the cards that some hapless British Consul may ere long find himself faced with the necessity of finding tbe three brothers a cheap passage back to Bombay, in spite of the fact that one of them is an "evangelist," another can play six instruments, and they can "all sing*." Court Bros.' sale of Daley's stock:. Men's - tennis shirts, 2/11, 3/6 ,4/3; tweed trousers at any price.—(Ad.) ■ BY ANY OTHER NAME. A recent traveller gives some amusing words used in conversation by the Indians of Mexico. A kiss is called tetenameguiliztli, and he says it feel* just-the-same as i. is finplt.