From The Watch Tower

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 655, 6 May 1929, Page 8

From The Watch Tower

By

"THE LOOK-OUT MAN."

THE BEQUEST A Londoner left his -wife “a pair of my trousers, duty free and carriage paid, symbolising what she wanted to wear in my life time but did not.” — To-day’s cables. My fairest wife, J have it o gold, to give you, Only these trousers, neatly striped with grey. The braces, too, complete, dear, 1 shall leave you For every day. Wear them, my love, and. let who will endeavour To steal the “strides ” that you. have wished for long, J trust they’ll fit, and make your life for ever One strident song. —SQUIOOE. FLYTOX COCKTAIL A new use for the insecticide known as flytox has been found by railway construction workers in Australia. By mixing the concoction with hop beer they make a drink guaranteed to stupefy an iron girder. The exhilaration produced by the use of this fearsome cocktail is said to leave men deranged, so the Government has been urged to set up proper bars in the camps, so that good liquor may be sold. The flytox will no longer kill time, only flies. THE VOICE THAT BREATHED The line in the song about the bootlegger’s daughter, “She came with a breath that would scare you to death,” comes to mind after a glance at a pargraph in to-day’s Australian mail. A strike occurred at the Walairah Colliery, New South Wales, because two miners considered that a horse in the mine had bad breath. Presumably the name of the horse would be Halitosis. SHIPPING AND FREEZING Gisborne Sheepfarmers’ Frozen Meat and Mercantile Co., which has purchased the Margaret W. to replace the lost Elsie Mary, is not the first concern of its district to embark on maritime enterprise. History was made when the rival Poverty Bay Farmers’ Co., promoted by Mr. W. D. Lysnar, M.P., purchased the freighter Admiral Codrington for carrying the firm’s produce to overseas markets. It was an unfortunate venture, and in the crash of the company the ship was eventually seized under mortgage. Freezing companies were having a bad time just then, and many Gisborne people suffered almost overwhelming losses. TO WHITE HOUSE News comes that strangers have managed to enter the sacred fastness of 1,600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington—otherwise. White House. By all accounts this would not be terribly difficult if the caller were sufficiently presentable. A policeman sitting on either side of the portico, and a soldier and a sailor planted among the palms inside, constitute the main defences, though there is usually a personal bodyguard at the President’s elbow whenever members of the public are about. Apparently President Hoover has been inclined to dispense with the services of this functionary when dining, but being a President is such a perilous business that even a “neatly dressed stranger” who converses affably iu the dining room may warrant suspicious regard. AT IT AGAIN A cable message from Delhi tells the world to-day that a dramatic struggle for the throne of Afghanistan has begun, armies led by Amanullah and Baccbasakao fighting it out near Ghazmi. The cable says that heavy casualties were suffered by both sides. The rfesult of the battle is not yet known. This sounds like a football stop press, and presumably the Kabul newspapers reported it like this: —The final for the Kabul Cup was played this afternoon in brilliant sunshine on the Ghamzi Stadium ground. Having been a week in camp, Amanuilah's fifteen took the field in splendid fettle. Although without match practice for some time Bacchasakao’s men looked fairly fit and very confident. Play opened with a series of snappy rushes on the left flank by the Amanullah threequarter line, lnyatullah showing a nice little burst of biting ability. The Bacc-ha-sakao defence, however, was equal to the strain, and the forwards swept down like wolves on the fold in a welter of no-trumps, hole-in-one, catch-as-catch-can, rabbit punching, bunny-hugging and nail-filing. In the scrimmage four men were injured and had to go off. Amanullah retaliated with a bombing rush which found the defence very much out of position. In fact, some of the pieces have not yet been discovered. Half-time score: Amanullah 43 winded, six slashed and nine missing; Bacchasakao, 22 killed, four hamstrung, one scalped and two boiled in oil. Later results will be found (perhaps) in the Stop Press column. . _