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Otago Witness, Issue 3957, 14 January 1930, Page 7

Many spectators at cricket matches leave cars near the the boundary line and that such are in danger from big hitting was shown at Maungakaramea recently, when a ball crashed into the windscreen of Mr O, Child’s car (says the Northern Advocate). Luckily, two women had just left the front seat, and the car was unoccupied. The ball made a hole through the centre of the windscreen and splintered glass flew in all directions. The orator who mixed his metaphor was somewhat akin to another referred to by Mr W. A. Veitch ,at the presentation of prizes in connection with the chess tourney (says the Wanganui Chronicle), In this case the man, said Mr Veitch, got mixed in his references. In a burst of eloquence he declared, by way of enforcing his point: “As Shakespeare said in ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress,’ ‘A man’* a man for a’ that.’ ”