A DAIRY OF TO-DAY

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 69, 25 July 1929, Page 4

A DAIRY OF TO-DAY

(By “BYSTANDER.”) ■ An African native aged 128 “who was once bought from slavery for a few pence has just got married out 0 f the frying pan into the lire, so to speak. xxx On * account. of the expiry of the German “protection of the Republic” law, there is no legal barrier to prevent the ex-Kaiser returning to the Fatherland. In fact, the only reason why there is any doubt about whether ,he will go back is his overwhelming regard for his skin. XXX Mr Lcvien, an Auckland magistrate, ha s often advocated that traffic policemen should carry cameras. His car was run into by a horse the other day, and if his suggestion had only been adopted the traffic police could have presented him with an enlarged photo of the offending animal. XX X X In the report of the Rugby Union’ g discussion of the dispute with the Domain Board regarding the grandstand, another paper has this: Mr Percy asked “whether Stratford was suffering from one man”, etc. Now, with all Us supposed faults, the Post has never put it like that, XX X X English papers which have just arrived, contain the report g of candidates’ speeches at the recent elections. After reading, these I am forced to the conclusion that politicians are the same the world over. They are always ready to stand for what the public is likely to fall for. xx x x A paragraph in last night’s Post stated that on several occasions lately when motor car s have been loft in parking places things have been removed from them, I have heard of cases in which the owners of second-hand cars would have been saved a lot of trouble if the cars themselves had been taken. xx x r Last night I wandered into a place where several men were talk* ing, and found a hot argument,in progress as to whether there is a life after death. Theories and suggesting were brought forward with such rapidity that it all became rather confusing. However, I think that at the end of the demonstration the- disputing factors were still fairly sure there is a life before death. xxx The Dominion republishes with a great flourish of trumpets an article from the Christchurch Press condemning the South Island Main Trunk Railway. It states that the Pres s being a Canterbury journal would support the line if it were worth while supporting. But the Dominion does not say anything about the Press being one of the staunchest Reform organ s in New Zealand and bitterly opposed to practically everything suggested by the present Government. This of course was s imply an oversight. The kettle merely forgot to mention the colour of the pot.