BY THE WAY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18000, 10 November 1926, Page 9

BY THE WAY.

SOME REFLECTIONS AND COLLECTION (By One of the Boy?). It locks as though it is not only nature that abhors a vacuum. s: The “Hops” are savage about the shakos. “To helmet them,” they say. >: It was a bit of a thud when the people next door got a car. albeit it was ?. second-hand one. Still we’re a tightlipped breed, and within a couple of months had saved enough for a sixtyfoot wireless mast. Aloft it looms, flaunting its snowy whiteness ever before their eyes. And again we walk erect, and know that the next move is on them. The Kaiser invited t 6 dinner Some Junkers, who only got thinner. He said “You’re all traitors” And sacked all the waiters. So the dinner was only a skinner. !*• “Well, I backed Oatsmeat in the last race and had hard luck.” “Hard luck? The thing came last.” “Yes, but a very good last.” _ « « Trotsky ruminates on the past. lie seems to have bitten off more than he can chew. :: Mussolini is going to open his Chamber'of Deputies without any speeches: even he will be silent. Now it’s up to Coates to go one better and be silent for a whole session. « K t-2 A horse at Addington was disqualified for excessive galloping. Several at Riccarton were quite within the law in that respect. There are many visitors in town this week—as a matter of course.