FROM THE WATCH TOWER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 518, 22 November 1928, Page 8

FROM THE WATCH TOWER

By

“THE LOOK-OUT MAN.”

TAKING THINGS EASY *‘lf you go to Sydney, take a motorcar,” is the advice of a man Avho has just returned to Auckland. This idea about taking motor-cars is already firmly implanted in the minds of a large number of people. But they do not go to Sydney to practise it. THE FAMILY ORDER The fact that the period of Christmas cheer and Christmas hampers is at hand perhaps explains a brewers’ advertisement in a Southern paper. The advertisement includes the following: ‘‘Famines supplied iu small casks.” SPEED A motorist who dashed on to the wharf at 25 miles an hour told the Traffic Court yesterday that he wanted to catch the Niagara. If his car hadn’t been equipped with good brakes he might have caught pneumonia. BUSINESS FIRST The persistence of the Auckland newsboy inspires firm confidence in the business prospects of the coming generation. Last evening in Albert Street a group of half a dozen men Avas engaged in Avhat seemed to he a factional quarrel. One or tAvo had their coats off; there were highlyseasoned a harmless blo*Av or two. At any rate, the party was fully occupied, and no outsiders Avere wanted. And on the edge of the gathering hung a newsboy, reiterating Avith persistent hopefulness:" SUN—last race edition!” A HOUSE DIVIDED Money attracts money, said English society folk, when Miss Olive Sainsbury married Lord Inverclyde. What they will say now the pair have been sundered by the Divorce Court is another story. Both are wealthy, Lady Inverclyde being comfortably endowed Avith a share of the profits from the Sainsbury provision firm, with branches all over London; while Lord Inverclyde inherited over £2,000,000 in 1919, when he Avas only 22. The family has only been in the peerage since 1595, when John Burns, Cunard shipping magnate, Avas made first baron. In the brief period, however, it has accumulated traditions. Hence, when Lord Inverclyde married Miss Sainsbury, he obeyed the dictates of traditional ceremony by carrying her across the doorstep of the ancestral home, Castle AVemyss. Presumably he will noAv carry her out. THE ALL-MIGHTY “ THEY ” The recent remark of Mr. Coates, “They won’t be able to say we did not play the game,” raises the question: Whom did he mean by “They?” And the answer, of course, is that he meant no one in particular. “They” are a great impersonal army who say things, and sit in judgment, and are called upon daily as authorities for countless statements of fact, near-fact, and plain imagination. Russell of Killowen, the great Irishman who rose to be Chief Justice of England, was once told: “They say you never read a brief.” “Wlio are they?” he contended. “Oh. everyone,” was the reply. “AVell, 1 want some more specific authority than that,” said Russell. “How do ‘they’ think I get up my cases —by intuition?”

UNLIKELY INTERVIEWS Mr. Zane Grey: Interidewed on the Niarangi upon its arrival in the stream this afternoon, Mr. Grey first of all reeled in the gold-mounted, triplehooked line with which he had been trolling for yellow-tail as the steamer came up the channel. “These here,” he said, indicating with a graceful gesture a couple of limp forms under a piece of brown paper, “are world’s record yellow-tail, caught off Tiri, after a three-hours’ struggle in which the Niarangi Avas towed six miles out of her course. My tackle, as you will note, is far superior to anything employed hereabouts ... No, I had no luck at Papeete, but there is a world’s record black marlin waiting for me at Mercury Bay.” The Hon . G. J. Anderson: Departing from that reticence which had sealed liis lips since, on landing from the Tainui, he made the appalling discovery that he had been unseated, the Hon. Mr. Anderson told a special interviewer to-day that he had greatly enjoyed his trip abroad. “Jimmy Parr is looking fine,” he said. Asked to compare the House of Commons with the New Zealand Parliament, Mr. Anderson said it compared most unfavourably. It was grossly overcrowded, and Ministers had no desks. Then, turning to the interviewer, the ex-Minister asked in a confidential undertone: “Who are these Uniteds? They weren't here when I left.”