SHORT SHOTS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 100, 18 December 1931, Page 7

SHORT SHOTS

Definltion Perjury is a duty one owes to one's friends. Not the Messiah "I know I am no more Christ than you," declared Jeddu Krishnamurti, on whom Mrs. Annie Besant tried to hang a Messianic mantle, but he declined to say if he were coming to Australia in April next, states a message from Yancouver. "I was reared in the beliefs of theosophy. Mrs. Annie Besant told me she found in me the personification of Christ. Later IA beeame the leader of the Order and believed that I was the Messiah. To-day I know that is not true, and if you come 'out to see me I shall not post as Christ." The Underworld of Sport Anyone who calls "two clubs" when holding only King, Queen and two smaller cards of a suit ought to be assaulted, declared counsel during a bridge law-suit. Too right! And anybody who says "I pass," when holding Joker, left and right bower, King and Queen, ought to be boiled in oil. Lilcewise, anybody declaring an innings closed at one wieket for 13 ought to have his head read ; and anybody who castles his King when he has lost all his pawns or exchanges his Queen for the King's bishop should be flogged on the bare back with a wet barracoota. What, however, can be said for the seoundrel who, going after a cannon, flukes a losing hazard off the red and then goes on to pile up a hreak of 5-3 ? The mysterious disappeatance of Mr. Ethelbert Paddledash in 1874 was believed to have been due to this eause, though "the police affected to think that he had simply run away from his wife. ■ .