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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1695, 24 August 1904, Page 11

First Girl—“ Dear me! lam astonished you should have invited Miss Smart to be one of your bridesmaids. I thought you didn’t like her.” Second Girl—“ Neither I do. and that’s why I’ve tusked Iter. The bridesmaids are to wear yellow, and you know what a horrible fright Miss Smart will look in yellow.” King Peter of Servia stands a good chano9 to be known as “the crownless monarch.” A late Bulgarian message says:—“The coronation, which had been fixed for Ist June, has been indefinitely postponed. Tho King, being poor, asked the Skuptschina to provide the cost out of the public exchequer. This request was promptly refused. The King then tried in every city of Europe to raise tho few hundred pounds necessary to buy a presentable sort of crown, but this effort also resulted in failure. It is possible that the King may resort to an iron crown, but for the present ho will be compelled to content himself with the religious service and the ceremony of annointing in the old Servian monas-