BY THE WAY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17837, 4 May 1926, Page 11

BY THE WAY.

SOME REFLECTIONS ~ " AND COLLECTIONS.

(By One of the Boys) .

Alex Dey told a story in Saturday’s “ Star about the ball being kicked from one football ground to another, at the same time that the ball from across the way arrived to take its place. The play went on and the remarkable fact was that both sides scored tries immediately afterwards with the wrong balls. The incident he relates reminds me of an episode that happened in Wellington. The two football grounds were close together, a furrow merely marking the boundary. During the game the two balls met in the air right on the boundary and bounced back into play. A curious thing then happened. Before either ball touched the ground a player “ marked ” it, and both kicks were successful. Strange to relate the two who landed the goals were brothers who had not seen one another for forty years. A further coincidence was that the goal made the score 17 to 5, and the game was played on the 17th of May, which is the fifth month, and, to make the incident stranger still, the referees were both named Murphy, but were not related, one being an Italian sculptor, and the other a minister in the Presbyterian Church. Mr Baldwin wise is Tf he can avert the crisis The Union manifesto , Says it can be done “Iley Presto.” Sir Arthur Ilazelrigg Divines with a hazel twig To you our thanks are due For inventing the Manxaroo. The Sumner man listened impatiently to the Brighton man’s praise of the beach, climate and people of his home borough. “Statistics prove that Brighton people live longer than anywhere else in New Zealand,” he wound up with. The Sumner man laughed sardonically. • “That is, of course, if being alive in New Brighton can be considered living,” he said. FACTS WORTH NOTING. It is not generally known:— That many married men on returning from a lodge where they have had several whiskies, frequently find it difficult to get to sleep after they get to bed. That elastic bands put round the bottoms of one’s trousers prevent the loss of money from holes in- trouser pockets. That the same handkerchief is never used twice by the best Fendalton people, but a hole in a sock is allowed up to half an inch in diameter.

That a vegetarian diet will make some men nutty and some men nut. That all the Customs officials at Wellington are laughing over a mistake in the new schedules issued. In them, saxaphones arc included upder the heading; Musical instruments. That ice-cream placed on the back of the neck will often make a man forget he has cold feet. That sleeping with a heavy weight on the forehead has the effect »o£ broadening the mind. Brighton baches bear some curious labels— O Avaspot! O Avaspot! There would I gladly dwell If, like a neighbour, in your block, My name were Dryaselle! See the Conquering Hero comes. No sound of trumps— No beat of drums? Oh ! What a welcome for the one—Of trumps the trump Who gets <thirigs clone! When he gets off from north-bound, trains He lands—cr-rump! This man of brains! His dress is neat—a gentleman— He’s not a frump. He’s spick and span. But when he lands here via the Tunnel, If not 9 frump, lie’s no Beau Brummcll!