SOME JUBILEE STORIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5961, 28 August 1897, Page 4

SOME JUBILEE STORIES.

THE ORDER OP THE GARTER. " Pray, my Lord," asked the Queen of the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal, '*' where am Ito wear the Garter ?" The Duke said he fancied he had seen a print of Queen Anne wearing the Garter on the lest arm. This and other authorities were duly consulted, and, accordingly, her Majesty has 6ver worn the Garter on the left arm upon all occasions of State. SIAMESE FLATTERY. The most stupendous piece of flattery ever tendered her Majesty the Queen was perhaps that to which a Siamese Ambassador once thus gave expression — " One cannot fail to be struck with the aspect of the august Queen of England, or fail to observe that she must be of pnra descent from a race of goodly and warli )•:►* kings of the earth, in that her eyes, cc-m plexion, and bearing are those of a beam : ful and majestic white elephant." HER " MITHER " HAD AN ACCOUNT. During the stay of the Queen some yeai* ago, in the vicinity of Loch Vennaohar, tt'» : - Princess Louise, who lacks none of the i -r* of her sex for shopping, drove into the i f v'i_ of Callander to get some velvet mate bodHaving procured what she was in scum of, she was about to pay for it, wher ■..■■■■ discovered that she had left home wit - - her purse. Explaining the matter tt draper, and promising to send the r v next day, the Princess was greatly aj.- > ■•A at receiving the characteristic re;- --" Dinna fash yoursel', mem ; hermith.i !>*u an account here."