BY THE WAY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17834, 30 April 1926, Page 9

BY THE WAY.

SOME REFLECTIONS AND COLLECTIONS. (By One of the Boys). My wife has just decided not to go in for that Pemerara sugar that Dr Thacker advocates. Someone told her it was not refined. k Give a dog a bad name and The club, who at last night’s meeting of the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association reported that it had expelled two members for indulging in a lurid argument, is a ca.se in point. Two years ago, when they affiliated they registered their name as the West Spreydon Tennis and Debating Club. The cabled news yesterday that the. ' Prince of. Wales had a Cockney accent and that, his brothers speak of the " Dook of Yawk,” confirms what I was told a year or two ago, but which at the time I did not believe. It was a young chap named Joe, but for quite a sufficient reason was nick- : named Blimey, who told me the yarn. T fancy he had a good war record. He belonged to the Royal Cheapside Cavalry, or the Hampstead Hangbacks. or something, and somewhere behind the lines in France the Prince inspected the men. lie walked down the lines until he came to Blimey, and I will j let Joe finish the story.

“ The. Prince comes along an’ peeps me eight wounded bars wot I got a stoppin’ ’em. 4 Blimey,’ he says to ’is haydekong, ‘ Blimej'. this cove ain’t ’arf ’ad a crook run.’ ”

This “ beautiful New Zealand” idea is all right, but the trouble is New Zealand lacks a history such as one associates with the Italian beauty spots. The story is told of a tourist in Italy who liked to be thrilled to his marrow when travelling. Going through a ?mall but picturesque village, he said to his guide:

“ You don’t seem to have anything notorious to say about this village. In the last place we stopped at they showed us a place where a man had lain in wait for his rival in love and had attacked him with a fiendish gusto.”

The guide had never heard of this crime, but his professional jealousy was aroused.

“ That is so. sir,” he replied, unblushiogly, “ and afterwards the villain made his escape in this direction. You are now standing, sir, on the very spot where he threw away the fiendish gusto with which he made the attack.” They .say the Prince of Wales In his language badly fails. Despising the Oxford mark He talks of the “ Dook o’ Yark.”

B.M.A. say “ What. A letter from Dr Watt? We think it most unfair. We like the U.S. Air. The quacks of the B.M.A. Had too much to say. Are told for their remissness To mind their own business.