Oddments

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 July 1950, Page 4

Oddments

We know that a free press means a great deal more than freedom to publish.—Sir Keith Murdoch. # * :i: * * “I know I’m not much to look at,” said the modest young lover to his fiancee. “I know,” she replied, “but you’ll be out working most of the day.” —Side Lines. si: =i: A rising ball from a fast bowler during a cricket match in Devon between Swinbridge and Winkleigh struck batsman S. Facey’s pocket and set fire to a box of matches. Fielders saw smoke coming from his trousers, ran to his help and put out the fire. Facey, unhurt, played on with his flannels scorched. # * # * * '* Now that the season of after-dinner oratory is coming to a close something should be done about it. Speeches get longer and longer and' duller and duller. Prepared speeches ought to be prohibited by law. Half a dozen short notes should be all that are allowed. British audiences are too polite.— London Recorder. # * * * Son of the oil king, Nubar Gulbenkian, was reported recently to wear a fresh £2 orchid every day to match his tie and socks. Orchids flown specially from London to Lisbon twice a week. An English lady of title once reproached Gulbenkidn thus: “In England one does not usually see men wearing orchids out hunting, Mr Gulbenkian.”

“Madam,” said he, “in England one does not usually see an Amenian out hunting at all.”—William Hickey in the Daily Express. —The Seeker