BY THE WAY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20223, 6 February 1934, Page 5

BY THE WAY.

Some Collections and Reflections. BY ONE OF THE BOYS. A correspondent wants to know who is this Henry V. one hundred and eleven ? Another secret still has been found in Southland. Possibly the spirit was 1 wanted for driving farm tractors. Golf, it is now believed, originated not in Scotland but in a low lying country, to wit, Holland. When Larwood bowls leg-theory, a bowling screen should be placed immediately in front of the batsman. The French duties against Britain can only be met with retaliatory duties from Britain. At last two wrongs make one right. Eight bags of cement were stolen from a job at Woolston. Evidently by someone requiring something concrete to work on. “ Last week a grain of sand got into my wife’s eye, and she had to go to a doctor. It cost me a guinea.” “ That’s nothing. Last week a fur coat got in my wife’s eye, and it cost me 60 guineas.” Along with his own pencilled comment, “What a Night!” a correspondent sends in a clipping from a South Island paper describing a concert to be held at Otautau to celebrate Burns’ Night. Portion of the report reads: — “ Chieftain presided, being played in by Piper Hawthorne and supported by Chieftains M’Crostie and Campbell.” Rather early for the good chieftain to come in that way.