FLOTSAM AND JETSAM

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVI, Issue 95, 20 May 1938, Page 3

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM

PICKINGS BY THE WAYSIDE. (Bv “Touch-stone”). Bradman is no longer real news unless and until he makes a “blob.” Labor will now be satisfied that Dunedin is the wrong place in which to advocate splendid spending. T»> judge by certain Labor setbacks a t last week’s elections the Prime Minister is not the only one liable to kick over the traces. Cabled that Haile Selassie “saw a doctor and went to bed tired.” Curious. for our medico, on sight, has never affected us like that. An Knglish cricket commentator think - that “the Australian bowlers trill 1 •• dangerous.” It’s just possible j](i"s right, too. ( ' von Luckner left (he said) )n. In !in New Zealand, but it looks tli" h he had better keep his head in .Vi lrnlni. aftei Minister Nash at the li on Monday Mr Savage said: “It b not come my way very often to In !< to sit down and listen to ,ni > : lent public address.” Seeing holds 75 per cent, of the seat- the House it seems strange th;ii c is no eloquence among its mcnb 1 -• I X IX THE NEWS. ' it pass in* the type—these S.W.X . who took them “Literarv Digest”: Mr ■ Mi * S are being felicitate th< girth of a son at the Q FI t ! Portland (Ore.) “l»er. The :d ( hristma party at the Ashle;- cet school was hell' yesterfev i o( n. -- Spi ingfield ( Mass.) Pf* r - The Jurist ran into a live wile, the lights of his ear, and then In t»ed away.—Atlanta (Ga.) pa|»<*r. Bost (AP) Former Governor !. * a double-barreled attack on tli' 1 ! esevelt daministration here last ni- 1 —Rochester (X.Y.) paper. Mi- is a boy and arrow enthusiast m impos to make a mark for hersell i the sport.—Blaekfoot (Idaho) miper. Heri something that golfer nijrhr «!• well to snip out and carry round in ibeir wallets, or paste on the wall - »f their club-houses. An hglish count n squire, sitting rccentyas In .i i Magistrate, was embar- , tassfd when a friend was brought be- , !ore him charged with violating an , dinanee prohibiting ‘gentli rom cursing in a public face." !■ appeared that the Magis- ( rate’' lYi* ud had done a particularly undy jub on a nearby ninth hole, < ud been M\erheard by an elderly lady | rith whop he had a lifetime feud, j aid had 1 n summoned on her com- , hint. T . Magistrate, himself a < golfer, h< \\ testimony and took the | ase umli uneasy advisement. The , ollowin. week he rendered his do- , ision: “ Vb! creas the defendant unInbted rsed, which he admits, < tis held that the defendant, by , urging. ci;<>ed temporarily, to be a fntleman. The law as written, there- j or, i invoked in this intance. < a-c dismissed.” ( An idoii .nr the Minister of Transit : The 'Jcrman Home Secretary is just I-- icd a new decree regardDjl the b! •<.i 1 test of motorists conned 1 'idents. In future, not lily the ii i 1 or in an accident must iff the !• ni his ear pierced and little Id.h.b extracted Lor an alco-*-1 - he vi<! im of tin 1 acci- 1 lent m listed, too. It is eon- ' idered t!: this will help to prove [ iow far ti • lestrian was incapable ( fitting < lv enough to avoid an ( ceident. ' The i - between China and ‘ he Oriental courtesy J fach nun’ •’ :lie first struggle hethe i wit nations forty years 1 - Bet battle of the Yalu, 1 iienthe ( 1 (loot was utterly de- ' toyed iiy t.lnpanese under Count * to. the into ■ wrote a letter to his * pponent. |. 1 *,ng out the hopeless- 1 of Im ] imi. and inviting him ' »ahamlon :■ md come to Japan as 1 j?ne>t. A i the battle. Ito sent ‘ n c«.: Mi cntary present of 1 hanipu_m whisky, and repeated ' 15 mvitmi.,: Vlien Ting preferred e the Count handed 1 Jfk ono .. captured Chinese ( “P* to con : in- body home. j M ran arrange that I Cabiiii i -ters who have not Yew Zealand -hould 1 ( nven i.r,. ire tlie* end o| this • ear. ; ni lowing a> being a 1 stable itC, MrFrn-i- Cni-ter of Marine to I • § < r ot Mines, • ttttbuktu 1 - Abo Attorney-General, ■&ia. Minister of ltail- % Iceland of Defence, 1 •fclaml 1 >|;, ]!( | M la t Mi Lee i . "ter i:i i i. Housing, South ,a Wands. Hy.do lik<. your new tvpeij.r' ii- I ’. I the salesman-agent. " "nml's 111 ; [ wonder how 1 ' i'-" 1 °n v.vit." replied the “Well, that’s s,' '''inld ... niind aivinir me a f '.‘‘-tiiii'i,,!;;! U, llmt etVert " : pleased; will ji.. 110 "- t'n the husiness man l U|l W- i and, taping "l winds a minute, "®(lw| this ~ n . ytiT | si 11 a ihre automatic Back»t.'|>e writ, er for thre *•' and Over, r unhesitattJV Pfononnee it prono nee it to J a< * '''''li no'ic than ill e Mnniii.,r it. Dunn* the yWn in 0.11- posessio n e. i. tli month?.'. i,l ] llls more tha an ,p,.l lai| l h.r iiCelf in ilip Saveing a " ■’ I artelly rec a IwhJ ,i' l :I" * any 1 hoo a c * ass f Iyp3 wiit(er) £.