MODERN SINBAD
' ■ t COSGRAVE HONORED BY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LONDON, Nov. 23. Cambridge University conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws on the Maharajah of Burdwan, Mr. Mackenzie King (Canada) and President Cosgrave (Irish Free State). "We must look to the Arabian Nights to find a life like Mr. Cosgrave's," said the Public Orator. ' 'Evert 1 Sinbad the Sailor did not experience such changes of fortune. Mr. Cosgrave's fellow-citizens made him the steersman of their State, and he holds ,the helm, with no uncertain hand. , With a now ship and the old crow ho has steered between Scylla and Charybdis, and has at last brought peace to Erin," . , .Scylla and Charybdis are two sea monsters described in tho Odyssey, being the personifications of the dangers of narrows and rocks to navigators. Legend located them in the Straits of Messina.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16209, 6 December 1926, Page 11
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