A London omnibus carries on an average 2500 persons a weeK; The~R:thschild family are well known for their weakness for polished floors. Every Rothschild mansion has its floors glistening like glass. Some years ago, on one of these slippery ways, his Majesty, then Prince of Wales, slipped one morning on his way to breakfast, and injured his arm rather seriously. When his Majesty's coming visit to Lord Rothschild "was being arranged the King wrote him saying he would be pleased to accept the invitation provided he did not expect him to walk about on " ice," as he was getting rather old now for that kind of thing. Lord Rothschild replied that he would find every particle of the floors of Tnng covered with carpeting for the Royal visit. On the King's departure this will, however, be promptly removed, and the floors will again assume their glaas-liko
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8912, 25 April 1907, Page 4
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