LORD CARRINGTON'S SPEECH.

North Otago Times, 3 December 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)

LORD CARRINGTON'S SPEECH.

Lord Carrington, the newly-ap-pointed Lord Chamberlain, recently said that when he went to New South Wales as Governor he delivered a, speech at a banquet.

It was a short speech, and he discovered that his predecessor, Sir Hercules Robinson, never spoke for less than an hour. When he sat down a very fat man opposite him gave a great grunt of relief, filled his glass to the brim, and emptied it to the dregs, and said in a voice loud enough to be heard all over the Sydney Town Hall: "Thank goodness, he can't speak. M

Sandy'M'Pherson, in a moment of abstraction, put half a crown in the collection-plate last Sunday In mistake for a penny, and has'since expended a deal of thought as to the best way of making up for it. "Noo, I might stay awa' frae the kjrk till the sum was mado" up; but on the other ban 1 I wad be payta' pew rent a' the time an' gettln' nae guido'it. Loshl. but I'm - thlUkla' this is what the mecnlstcr cr'b ft