BREEZES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 11 May 1932, Page 4

BREEZES

Stopping Them! Maguire, in the role of white hope, was being knocked about. “Try and stop some of those blows,” counselled his trainer at the end of the round. “Stop them!” said Mick. “Oi didn’t know any iv thim were passin’ me! ’ ’ * * * * Not What He Meant. The young suitor had called on his loved one for her reply. “No, Oswald,” she said, “I am afraid that I cannot marry you.” “Oh, very well, then,” he returned savagely. * ( There are others just as good. ’ ’ “Better,” sho retorted. “I accepted one of them yesterday.” * * * » i * ''Working for 100 Years. An old woman in Yugo-Slavia has just reached the age of 112. For 100 pf these years she has sold paprika in. the market at Ilok, Novisad. One has heard before of people working on one farm or in one workshop for 50 or 60 years, but after this who will dare to boast of faithfulness or long service? * * * * Wcmen Take to Pipes. Two fashionably-dressed women smoking fancy-shaped briar pipes caused a sensation at Brighton, England. Pipe smoking among women has become a craze at Brighton, while at Hove, close by, they have even gone so far as to hold a women’s smoking concert —but in private. “The craze is undoubtedly an attempt at economy,” it is stated. “Many women are used to smoking only expensive Turkish and Egyptian cigarettes. The expenditure of £1 to 30s a week is proving too much for them, and they are trying something cheaper. ’ ’ * * * * New “River” Discovered. A remarkable discovery of water has been made on the estate of Wilkin and Sons, Ltd., at their Tiptree Hall (Essex) farm, where the supply is so great that 50,000 gallons are running away every day. While a workman was ploughing 1 a field his horse’s back legs sank deep into the soil. Investigation re- ' vealed a gushing water supply. Nearly eight feet, below the surface was found a double section pipe, horseshoe shaped, presumably placed there to drain the bogs that existed on the site early in the last century. There were also smaller pipes connecting like tributaries to a great river. The water, delightful to drink, is running through silver sand. An old book of reference ■states that near the present spot sand was discovered, boiling up like water in in a cauldron. The conditions now are similar. * * * * Hotel Ban on African. The coloured nephew of the reigning Prince of Abeokuta, Nigeria, West Africa, who is an Oxford graduate and a student at the Middle Temple,.sued a West End Hotel at Marylebone County Court, alleging that he was refused admission. Mr Oluwole Ayodele Alakya sued the New Mansions Hotels, Lancaster Gate, \Y„ for £55 damages for alleged breach of contract. He was awarded £l2 12s and costs. Mr , Austin Farleigli (for Mr Alakya) said he wrote to the New Mansions Hotel and rooms were engaged. Mr Alakya was shown to his room and had commenced unpacking his trunks, when he was told by the manageress that she was sorry, but they had not room for him. It came out that the real reason why he was told that was the fact that lie had concealed from them that he was a man of colour. Mr Alakya, who wore a thin gold bracelet on his left wrist, said his father was a barrister of the Middle Temple, practising at Lagos. He had three brothers studying in England, and a sister at a public school. Miss Grace Foster, book-keeper at the New Mansions Hotel, said: “I did not except to see an African gentleman. There had been nothing in the correspondence to suggest it. It was quite English.” Mr John Thomas Warren, the proprietor, said, if Mr Alakya had mentioned in his letter that he was an African he would never have offered him accommodation. “It would’ ruin my business,” said Mr Warren.