LIFE’S LITTLE WANTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 30 December 1927, Page 4

LIFE’S LITTLE WANTS.

- «- The Great Drink Question, “AVhat’s yours?” * * * * Wanted Change. “Now, tell us about it. Why did you steal the purse?” “A r our Honor, I won’t deceive you. I was feeling ill and thought the change might do me good.” * # * * A “Sheik” Chastised. Street “sheiks” were in their element in the AVanganui Avenue on Christmas Eve, says the “Herald,” and many and varied were their pranks. One of the favourites wrfs handfuls of confetti and rice,down the necks of unsuspecting young ladies. Most of the latter suffered in .silence, but one girl turned on her smacked his face soundly, kicked his shins, and told him in no uncertain manner what she thought of him. * * * * - Bees in Possession. Some consternation was caused last week (says the Greymouth Star) at the Kokiri railway station. AVhen the guard ox the train .to Otira went to the signal box to telephone the Grey traffic department he found a swarm of bees had taken charge, and was prepared to argue the point with any disturbers of the Queen’s household. Strenuous, but unsuccessful efforts on behalf of the guard and drivers to smoke out the bees were made, the bees exhibiting a bellicose attitude. The train staff finally decided to leave them in possession and through to Greymouth from the next signal box, some miles distant. . . * * * * Tragedy Averted. A tragedy was narrowly averted recently in the Rotorua Borough Council yard; happily it ended in something very like comedy. A foraging expedition of three ducks ; struck the council’s bitumen pit and explored it, with the result that like the ladies and the bird lime in one of Harry Lauder’s songs, they stuck. Their owner located them at about 9 p.m., but found it impossible to release, them without damage. They were made as comfortable as possible with ample food supplies. In. the morning they were still there, together with three eggs, apparently little the worse for their experience. The ducks had to be cut out with an axe. The all too friendly mixture was removed with the aid of some methylated spirits and the loss of some feathers. * * * * Justice for Hungary. AVhat I claim for Hungary is * no more than elementary justice (says Lord Rotliermere in. the “Daily Mail”). The idea of a return to hen pre-war frontiers is out of the question. Hungary must pay the penalty of defeat. But that is no reason for inflicting upon her such wrongs as the war was expressly waged to abolish. She has a perfectly righteous and reasonable claim to recover the territories preponderantly inhabited by Hungarians which, as a result of the Treaty of Trianon, at present lie just across her frontiers, cut off from all intercourse with her by every device that the malevolence of her neighbours can invent. This state of things is an outrage to an ancient and splendid people with a history of high endeavour extending over a thousand years. It is fundamentally wrong, and it cannot endure. There is time now to right it peacefully and effectively. If we continue. to close our eyes to the evil it will keep alive the spirit of hatred and hostility in Central the inevitable result of a war.