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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18875, 30 May 1923, Page 5

“While some Welshmen claim that the Welsh language was that spoken by Adam and Eve,” says a writer in the Morning Post, “others more modest only insist that it was one of the original languages spoken at the Tower of Babel. Some cynics admit this, and tell the story of its origin thus: One of the masons at the top of the tower had plenty of mortar, but no bricks. The tower had reached such a height that ho could not make the man below hear him when he cal Jed for more bricks. At last the latter, with wide-open mouth, called up, ‘What?’ Then the mason, exasperated, threw down a trowel of mortar, which, lodging in the throat of the man below, resulted in his speaking Welsh for the first time, and accounts for the guttural character of the language.” The city of Vancouver is being favourably affected by the use of the Panama Canal for tbs transit of corn. Ten million bushels of tho 1.9C2 crop left Canada westward thiougV Vancouver.