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Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 32, 29 November 1901, Page 5

Mi-G. H. Reid, the leader of the Federal Opposition, has been treating the Old Scotch Collegians of Melbourne, among whom he is numbered, to son e recollections of his youth. He had never, he said, been what was known as a good boy ; in fact, he had a dread of the boy who was always good, who always knew his lessons. Hefound that that boy never did anything in sifter life. He himself had once taken m prize, but only alter the school authorities had had a long consultation as to what subject it was possible to give him a prize in. (Laughter.) His school life at the Scotch College lasted three weeks, which was divided into two distinct periods—one when he was in school, the other when he was '•playing the wag." (Laughter.) He might say he stayed away out of sympathy with the masters, and he was proud to say he was never missed. (Laughter.) He used to disappear quietly out of the window. He wished he could do the same now, but he found the disappearing trick impossible. (Laughter.)

A countryman went in to the bar of a. large hotel in Glasgow and asked for :i bottle of stout. Tendering Is he received back 6d change. " Hiv ye ever been in the Gordon Hielanders ?" he inquired of the barman. " No," replied the barman ; " but why do you ask ?" " Only because I see ye're a gran' liaund at changing," was the retort. A Mr Tocher has been treating the British Association to a dissertation upon the complexions of the different clans of Scotlane. The Wallaces, he states, are all blonde in Inverness, and

the Robertsons and Gordons are dark

in Perthshire and West Aberdeenshire. The Piries, Grants, Parks, and Birnies are all strongly blond. On the other hand, the Cordineis, the Cruiekshanks, Stephens, Strachans, Buchans, Patersons, and Whites are very dark. Rennies,. Scotts, Grants, and Thomsons usually have red hair, but Johnstons, Walkers, Burnetts, Forbeses, and Watsons rarely have.

The larrikin evil is said to be growto an alarming extent in Ashburton,. and the. Borough Council has resolved to ask the police to enforce the thie- by-law against loitering in the sheets —a fruitful. source of the evi c mglMned of., 1