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Temuka Leader, Issue 7554, 18 April 1914, Page 4

Some time afterwards, however, the baronetcy was duly conferred, anki the gentleiixan meeting his friend, was congratulated by him upon his accession to the inferior ranks of the aristocracy, an)d asked him whether he had not, in fact, been obliged to pay for the honour. "Yes, them," replied the gentleman, "they drew me for ten thousand." WAS THIS A SCOTSMAN? Another gentleman applied to the Head Whip to- be made a peer, whereupon ■'■' : The' Head Whip gently but firmly hinted that it was customary when a gentleman was made a peer and ho and his posterity ennobled in their blood, that such a gentleman should make a handsome- contribution to the party funds. . Tho gentleman in question 'replied that, in the circumstances, that could not bo expected of him. Upon this the Head Whip, always politely, but yet firmly and with much gentleness, replipj thmt ho feared that his un~ >: doubted claim to the. peerage could not be the in considered. In reply to this the gentleman said that if his peerage was not in the next Birthday honours he would publish the cowespondenjee. He was made a .peer.

The list of honours for the last twelve years shows that it is almost always the rich man who possesses that kind of merit which deserves a peerage, Mr. Bowles alleges. Tho "Candid" is itself unspotted by commercialism. This number does not contain any advertisement whatever. Its 278 pages—are they all written by Mr. Bowles, for none is., signed ?~rare bound in a pale blue cover, as though it were some ghost of a. 'Blue-book.