A SCOTSMAN'S CABLE CODE.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1924, Page 4

A SCOTSMAN'S CABLE CODE.

- AMUSING INCIDENT IN AUCKLAND. Siamls Sol land t.ln-re it dill Emphal ically il does not. ai cording to 11n’ experience of a professional gentleman fine the bin o’ rakes, wlui is now sojourning in Auckland (says the "SI ci’’). lie lias coma twelve ihmi--aiii! miles to learn in this new country el mu's ! li.it iliat part, ef Britain w I;ii li lie, nnrlii of the Tweed is not olli ialiy a i-motry and has no language, tb.-ii. i- «i tape is cognisant of. And it liapj i !aal 1 1 11(-: .!anuarv ’.’d is to Sna-tm'ii I i v. 11; Id i",'i‘ii ii dig of levi'H'm eln 1i... uoild on-r a thi.\ of ri-vi-rem'-e Lo Im si inn \ of t!:; -i r no i iomil hard. A:■ i a l' ne pal riot , nr visitor iletei mil" d i , i a Lie !, i. 1,, i .. i -I". . id ‘-iiriihei Macs.” who tv,,idil foro.atber in Ids own Highland tor... "■ mark IU-U.-rt Ilugi.'s mini van r.v i 'a; t;< t i-:-|ly. too c decide.! mi seed grei tings fill iug in 1h ■ iiicu •ion. so lie quoted lbmn the pool s immortal “Tam o’f-hanier.” mom.' rented it at the Auchhud ('■ F.O isr low II of Ids hirl li. The clerk | err. ail it and refused it. explaining to the :• s I ounde-l ighlaiidar that it \y <in 1 .sender protest that the world •‘unco" i'.y. go,id. honest Scot ii.sh; in vain v.cre his a.i .'iimeuis that it migl.t <\ - am! liio-c i "gala: ions iorhade hi'a lo rt-eept i■’ 11 o del cables unlc-.s they \ve;e : * U'io Ia up uage of Web., jor's dictionary. The Said begged an appeal lo a higher oflieial and t. e ie!eg : aoh < Im l; obligingly (• 111rsit!ti'i! someone v. D iii-i his .-■a t'.iq ii in. otily to riuini v.itli the Pal that Ids i!i*cisiinl mi".; stand, lielqctallil.i. i tie visitor had lo return in the tlc'k. am! m place of the apip.eal t lie i he limav, his quotation would make, hail to M'lislii lite the cold drill English. “I am vii h v u iii adriis’’ note the l Ini.-i 1 . Now i' - v mils in know what is wrung In : ami hi. own liiertit nr.' no jmi e! it. II" 1 In. i la' roll! ;1 lia’.'i- cahled to Frame in French, and ye! i annul do -o to .Scotland in the o’lß way that \ou may really greet a I'i'ithcr Scot. line can only wonder wlial uoah have eventuated had this incident occHrjc.l in Dunedin. Soreness uvet d,-.riial H’lmols wmild have sunk into