THE PASSING SHOW.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 128, 2 June 1927, Page 6

THE PASSING SHOW.

(By THE MAN ABOUT TOWN.)

Aii Italian gentleman very rightly verbally attacks M.A.T. In an admiring paragraph about Italian ladies (whom M.A.T. regards as the loveliest in Europe) AH APOLOGY, he. in his momentary ignorance, alluded to them as senorilas, which, as the office boy can explain (now the thinp in in cold print) is Spanish. It is therefore with 'a. sense of preventing international complication* that one gladly and meekly asks the public to delete the word aenoritas and to insert signorinax. To the Ducc of Italy M.A.T. tenders an apology, hoping that Signer Benito Mussolini, out of hi- warm Latin heart, will pardon the unintentional slip of a careless Celt who abhors war. Here is the front page of an isstle of the Johannesburg "Sunday Time*." It is noticed that our Imperial fellow colonists not only publish accounts of rurON THE RAHD. rent births, mania gee and deaths, but their marital engagements, believing that they are worth paying for. In twenty-one notices including "Fianeailles," the following names occur, and it will be dear to you that "Joburg" is not wholly infested with British people: Bihl, Kaplan, Myerson, Reiss, Schnetler. Van der Bank. Oiuranovitch, Lotz, Grierzel. Levin, Siel>ert, Kahanovitch. Mostert, Solomon, Pcraro. If you read the "Joburg" papers every day for a month or two you mould begin to understand General Hertxog. For the modest sum of three guineas it was recently possible for potential Auckland punters to buy a betting system, which, as the inventor himself FRENZIED declared, was simplicity FINANCE, itself. One of the beauties of the system was that the inventor claimed a proportion out of your sure winners. A cold, cruel detective interviewed the- inventor, and a callous magistrate fined him a fiver. Talking about infallible systems remind* one of the sick punter who, feeling unwell, went to his doctor for an overhaul. The medical man tapped him, ninety-nined him, stethoscoped him. and pave bis verdict. "There's something seriously, wrong with your system," he said. "There can't be," said the patient, ""I backed three winners at Ellcrslie only last Saturday." You will have noticed in perusing a cablegram from Paris teat large numbers of people et Monte Carlo and the vicinity have been so Kiirccssful with systems that they have blown out their liraim>.

A train which left Auckland for Kumeu at ."i.l.i this evening proceeded only as far as Waitakere owing to a tablet from the Auckland to Whangarei train INTO having been lort between THE UNKNOWN. WaiUkcre and KumeuAfter a delay of half an hour the three passenger* for north of Waitakere were conveyed to Taupaki and Kumeu on a jigger, arriving at 7.45 p.m. Silent and nmns. «letermlned. brave He on the pUironn Mood : Hed facwl the dark and angry wave When In it* deadliest mood.* His faithful wire and children dear Wept a* he went from view. "Tor year* he may he gone we fear. He ■ off to Kumeu '." The pale-fared guard all trvtublinz rsn And told his dreadful' tale. "A tablet han been lost '." he cried. "L'pon the rushinp rail." Then up *pake Bill, the tall, the strong A dominating fijrurv. "Well tote tlie whole train load alons In Cordon Coates* Jigger." Wnltalcere i« in our wake. The pollnhed metal« fly. Brave bean* at last Taiipaki "tnak«\ Hope shines in everj' *f*~ Wires fla»li their mesuage back to towa. Mother's no longer blue. ••H*"r »a>re. but tafp. dear bairns," she tcreasis, "He's got to Kumeu I" Wnat slial" we do with our boy*? But them a thousand pounds' worth of* education and make them nvc-hundred-a-year lawyer*. or buy them a couple of A LUCRATIVE hundred of rabbit tram CAREER, say. "Bless you. my sons. the world is your orange; suck it.' . Awhile since, an ingenious young man caught some silver-skinned rabbits in the Waimarino district, and, far from the eve of man. started a rabbit stud farm. "it is understood that there i* an unsatisfied demand for these Wautiful fox furs, and that even durnesses are clothed with delicious coats all the way from Waimarino. Rabbit skin buvere are combing the country for bunny skin* "and a voice from tho south declares' that some rabbitcrs are taming fifty pounds a week trapping them. Time was when bunnr vu simply poisoned ami allowed to lie in myriads an offence to earth and heaven, but sin\« mv lndy wnnts fox seal ermine, l.ear, raccoon and many other choice skins, poor little bunnv has 1 to die overtime to eope vith the demand" \ voung rabbit nowadays never knows whether he is poing to grow np into a mere oonev or a gn*7ly bear. V.T, at evcr the furriers «v he is, he is. •

In a Iar ?P number of schoolroom* throughTRIBUTE. millions of London and „ j Ncw Y °rk ire nnif. ouamted with Wharekirauponpa, and deplore their ipnoraucc. A New Zealander rStte >ew Wk schools and win S this simple donee uondored why the children should be rem,n»ed of a little country which ha* few* people than ~art. a rt of the ea*t Mde of tJiat srreat city. And the question was a*ked. -It j s to remind everybody who come* into ope of our fohoolroom* of your wonderful man Truhv King—the man who M vc* the babies,' «,« the explanation. People who mav have inferred that the words were put in New* York schoolroomii to remind children that we have footballer* may be reminded that all countries are bettor known on account of their great men than on account of, anything else The t«o universally.known New Zealander* are this same Sir Tniby and Sir Erne*t Kuther«onl. The name Tlunket will live not IH-oau.<o a noblo lord owns it. but becau* Tniby Kinp a<loj.tc«l it for hi* system.

Onernl Sornoff" (the military nickname of a local merchant), speaking of engineers to M.A.T., mentioned that a* a daw they are THE KEY. that although they are often on the roof ther do not harangue the public from thence and'that when they leave l«-hind them great undertakings of untold value to you and me thev rogard them a* all in the day** work. And the case of Lahouchere. the famous editor of London "Truth* , recurred. Some mav have heard it. This is for the other*. Labbv had a *afe. He wifhed to open it. HV unpocketed his key. inserted it in the kevhole gave it a turn. It neither responded a't the' moment nor during a Mibseqticnt hectic hour A famous engineer who w M a friend lived close" hy. Labby sent a boy requesting that Sir Percival would favour him by calling "Look here, Percy.- he *aid. "I cant open "tlii« condemned safe; most important. Wish vou would have a lock."

Pemval had a look. "Where , * the kev Labby!" Labby pave it to him. "Got a pin[ Labby ?" Labby pare him a pin. PerrivaJ picked tho dtiet from the barrel of the key and opened tho safe. "How much!" &«ked Labbr "Sixty puinea*." said PercivaL -I'll give von a hundred and twenty if you keep quiet about it." xaid Labby. But Labby «n* ■ journalist. Ble« you *e couldn't keep'quiet about it.