BREEZES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 15 January 1932, Page 4

BREEZES

Motoring Maxims. Pedestrians should be seen and not hurt. Say it Avith brakes, and save on the flowers. Time sax-ed at a. dangerous crossing may be lost in the casualty xvard. * * * *

Mutual Admiration. Mrs. P.: My husband admires everything about me— my hair, my eyes, my hands, my voice— Mrs. Q-: Well, Avhat do you admire about him ? Mrs. P.: Why, his good taste. * * * * Deceit.

Barrister: I avos- deceived in regard to that man Avliom I .defended on a charge of embezzling half a million.

Friend: You found he was guilty,

“No, confound it! He avss innocent, and hadn’t a penny to pay me Avith.”

Historic Donkey Dies,

Jack, the elder of the two famous donkeys that have trod the Avellhouse Avheel at Carisbrook Castle, Isle of Wight, for more than 20 years, has just died at the age of 26. On hot, summer days, Avlien he thought thirsty xfisitors had demanded his services too often, he Avould keep on treading the Avheel furiously after the bucket had been raised, Avith* the result that the Avater Avas upset 0A T er the onlookers. * * * * Slump in Beer. . The effects in Liverpool of higher taxation of beer are causing some alarm. In the 1400 licensed houses in Liverpool big staff reductions are taking place. Already 500 barmen have been dismissed. “The position is so serious, ’ ’ said an authority, ‘ 1 that the Government cannot allow it to go on. Public houses liaA r e- lost patronage at an appalling rate, and the Avorking man, driven aAvay by the higher cost of beer, finds he has lost his club, Avlvich is Avhat is at the public house really is to him,” * * * * Bluebeard.

Dear M.A.T.,— Butting sheep and goats iioav being popular in your column, this may be Avorth a place. The oAvner of a farm betAveen Manukau Harbour and the West Coast gaA e a site for a school, and this Avas fenced off and the school erected. Later the farm .Avas sold and the ucav owner introduced some goats to fight the gorse . and blackberry. Some gumdiggers living near used'the farm as a short cut to the store, and this was turned to good account by an old father goat, locally knoAvn as “Bluebeard.” On the trip to the store Bluebeard Avould let them' pass, but on coming back Avith the pikau of stores, lie Avould give chase, and the rule Avas to throav a loaf of bicad at him, which always secured a free pass. One afternoon Bluebeard wandered to the school, climbed the stay of the straining post, and mounted the steps to the porch. The lady in sole charge made a barricade of forms and desks, but Bluebeard held the school in a state of siege until help arrived. Later Bluebeard developed the Avanderlust and took charge of the road from harbour to coast and by popular vote met an untimely end. —Old-timer.