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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 193, 4 January 1913, Page 2

A letter from Osborne in ISSD gives an amusing illustration of the old Duke of Cambridge's liluntness:—"l am going to dine down, to help to work off the old Duke of Cambridge, who is said: to be somewhat troublesome, by asking, in his good father's tone, such questions as, "How do you get on here? Rather dull, hey?' within two chairs of the Queen at a small table. . . . The Duke of Cambridge at Chatsworth the other day on his knees in the middle of family prayers, very loud before the assembled household: 'A d d good custom, this!'" The military workshop of I'uteaux, in France, is turning out leather tyres for the army cycles in place of indiarubber oives, which are dillicult to repair when they break down. Leather tyres can be sewn without much trouble by the cyclist or a neighboring shoemaker. Moreover, they are lighter than rubber one, and less 'apt to slip on wet pavement or asphalt.