THE TACTLESS ADMIRAL.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 50, 12 May 1910, Page 2

THE TACTLESS ADMIRAL.

Mr. Archibald Colquhoun has some good stories to tell in his new book, "From Dan to Beersheba." One of the best is of Lady Brdome, when wife of the Governor of Trinidad. She was talking to 'the admiral of a foreign squadron which put in at Trinidad. He was a bellicose and tactless person—was he Americasi ? we wonder.

"If we did have a brush with your ships," he began.

"Well," said Lady Broome, "what then ?"

He laughed, '"I should be towing that tub," pointing to the English flagship, "into one of our ports !" " Indeed," said Lady Broome, "you compliment neither yourself nor us. I should have expected you to reply that both ships would be sunk or disabled."—"Saturday Review."