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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 9893, 25 January 1911, Page 4

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The Capping Scandai

The capping scandal (for that is what it will socn bo magnified into) is becoming a bore. Such displays are supposed by some people to be a reproduction of the proceedings on Commemoration Day at Oxford. These used to be very eutertaiuiug, but probably ttiey have lost their charm, like most other institutions of the past. There were wit and humour and a certain historic iuterest at the Uoramemoratiou gathering, but these are eutirely wanting here, aud poor imitations are intolerable. Tho Chancellor takes it a little overseriously perhaps, but he is quite right in his argument; aud it is to be hoped that in future the capping ceremony will be allowed to pass off "decently aud iv order." Eight Tons. "Distributed load, eight tons," is the legend oue reads ou some railway trucks. In these days of the "passing" of the horse it, is pleasing to recall a tradition of Manchester in bygone days, to the effect that a certain grey cart stallion, said to bo the finest" draught horse in Great Britain, and belouging to a calender, actually drew a load of eight tons up the slight incline in Market-street. No doubt the story was like that of the "three black crows," but it originated in a record performance. We remember the Animal, one ot the noblest-looking of liis species.